World-renowned bass player - Reggie Washington is our special guest on episode 8 - season 3 of Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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World-renowned bass player - Reggie Washington is our special guest on episode 8 - season 3 of Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris. Reggie Washington was both raised and started his musical career in New York. Now he is globally known as a consummate bass player, bandleader, composer educator, mentor, and a man that has followed his heart in love. Living in Brussels, Belgian with his wife and three daughters. It was really great fun to spend quality time with him chatting about many things that you don't normally hear. Listen in and hear backstories, musician advice, and much more. I know you won't be disappointed.

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0:00.0	Our special guest on this episode of Music Matters is world-renowned bassist Reggie Washington.
0:12.2	Listen in to this fascinating conversation he has with our host, Darryl Craig Harris.
0:17.9	Welcome everybody. Today I have an awesome bassist and he's he's actually more than that a
0:32.3	band leader, composer, teacher, mentor to many. Reggie Washington coming to us from Brussels, Belgium
0:40.4	and originally from New York. How are you doing Reggie? I'm just a wonderful end of the evening,
0:45.5	put the girls to sleep and then have Leo. It's not it's not the man cave down here.
0:51.5	I'm split office in studio, you know. Awesome. Yeah so you're originally from New York. How did
0:59.2	you come to live in and Brussels in Belgium? And you know to be honest it's it's it's it's love.
1:07.4	Yeah yeah sometimes sometimes the most high just throws you a bone or something and then we get
1:17.9	a second second or third chance to to you know to get life back together you know I was we were
1:26.4	doing tour I was touring with some worse boy and we're just doing doing the same thing which
1:32.2	that's fun but doing the same thing. I need to do something different. Let me let me let me explore
1:38.8	it plus playing with him. You you you give off the aura of not being available for anybody. So
1:48.4	if you want to do in a tour with Roy and I would do the RH factor. I wasn't playing with the
1:55.9	quintet. So Roy was out with the quintet and people was the only boy you know so I didn't even call
2:02.8	you. So right right yeah they just assumed you're busy. Yeah so gig started getting very skimpy man
2:08.9	and you know I had some real good friends like Joe Bonacci and I had with some club date bands
2:16.7	which were which were cool. We were playing with great musicians, playing some nice music,
2:21.0	make some dough. Okay you know hey Rhett and I can you know get around with that. Yeah and he was
2:27.2	really he was cool about it with your doing tours and like that so they started getting small you
2:33.4	know so let me try something different. Plus I was coming back over here in Europe like the next
2:43.7	you know next time I was going I was with Steve Coleman. So you know I just happened I met
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