Todd Reid  began his musical journey on 3 coffee cans with ballpoint pens as sticks at the age of 8. His father, also a musician, found him one day in the living room banging away at his “drums”…ink was everywhere! His father quickly figured that Todd would soon ruin the house if a set of real drums was not found.

A real set [circa 1960s Ludwig] was procured from his boss and Todd began drum lessons on his ninth birthday. Not long after that, they found a restaurant close to their house in Kettering OH, that had live jazz 4 nights a week. That did it…Todd knew right then what the rest of his life would in pursuit of!

Todd has since been very active in the jazz scene, playing with folks like Eddie Daniels, Bobby Shew, Nick Brignola, Charles McPherson, Nnenna Freelon, Roseanna Vitro, Eddie Harris, Lew Tabackin, Rickey Woodard, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Ingrid Jensen, Jon Hendricks, Richie Cole, Javon Jackson, Red Holloway, Mose Allison, Bob Dorough and a host of others.

Todd has been most gracious in granting me some of his time so I could ask him some questions about his jazz drumming, his painting and also his faith. Many thanks Todd, I hope to meet you one day in person!

Enjoy the interview below. For more info you can visit Todd’s site here : http://www.toddreid.com

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A beautiful clip from the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the early 60’s. Joe Morello on the kit keeping a 5/4 going with some style! I got to play this once or twice with some musos but never was as classy as this!

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