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Jef Reynolds has an extensive list of artists he's backed over the years, including Lesley Gore (It's My Party), Lou Christie (Lightning Strikes), The Crystals (Da Doo Ron Ron), Martha Reeves (Dancin' In The Streets), Danny and the Juniors (At the Hop), The Coasters (Yakety Yak), Little Eva (The Loco-Motion), Freddy "Boom-Boom" Cannon (Palisades Park), Archie Bell (Tighten Up), Fabian (Tiger Man), Billy J. Kramer (Bad To Me), The Tokens (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), Alex Chilton (lead singer of the Box Tops and founder of Big Star) and Wolfman Jack and his Midnight Special Rock and Roll Revival Road Show. Jef spent his formative years playing with a collection of great jazz musicians around Detroit (including the legendary Joe Messina and Ralph Armstrong). Early in his career, he replaced bassist Jervonny Collier as a member of Shivers, a band from Detroit signed to A&M Records in the 1980s which played all around Michigan and Canada. During this period, he was also an on-call session player at Cloudborne, Ron Rose and Producers Color Service Studios. He took part in the early recordings and productions of the songwriting team of Michael King and Gary Nester. His more recent recorded work includes appearances on all of Jo Serrapere's CDs, Kitty Donohoe's CD This Road Tonight, Scott Loudon's CD Space and Time (recorded at the very cool Jackpot! Studios in Portland, Oregon) and David Nefesh's CD Pureheart, plus albums by Blowtop and Pub Domain. In 2006, he became a regional member of Professor Louie and the Crowmatix. Currently, he is a member of Jo Serrapere and the Willie Dunns, Automatic Mojo and The Magic Poetry Band (MaPoBa), and produced their 2007 release, The Kurl of the Butterfly's Tongue. This album also includes the works of veteran jazz artists Faruq Z.Bey (Griot Galaxy), Ron English (Detroit Artists Collective and who can forget ... The Woolies!!), and features visual contributions by legendary graphic artist Gary Grimshaw and photographer Leni Sinclair. He also just finished co-producing (with RJ Spangler), engineering and mixing the latest release from legendary blues artist Alberta Adams, Detroit is My Home, due in March 2008. |
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Copyright (c) 2006-2008, Jef Reynolds. |
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