Bob Reynolds is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. A solo recording artist since 2000, he has been a member of the popular "genre-bending" instrumental group

Snarky Puppy Snarky Puppy is an American instrumental band led by bassist Michael League. Founded in 2004, Snarky Puppy combines a variety of jazz idioms, rock, world music, and funk and has won four Grammy Awards. Although the band has worked with vocalist ...

since 2014, winning

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s with the band for the albums ''

Culcha Vulcha ''Culcha Vulcha'' is an album by American jazz fusion group Snarky Puppy that was released on April 29, 2016. The album includes performances by a number of musicians associated with the band and called "the Fam". The band's first studio album ...

'' and ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall,''.

Career

Born in

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, his family moved to

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. He started playing saxophone at age 13 and attended high school at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts with a well-known

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band. After graduating, he attended

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music is a private music college in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern American music, it also offers college-level cours ...

where he studied with

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and

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. He has played with

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's band for five years, and has also worked with

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, Gregory Hutchinson, and

Tom Harrell Tom Harrell (born June 16, 1946) is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 by ''Jazz Journalists Association'', Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including mul ...

. His 2006 album ''Can't Wait for Perfect'' was voted Best Debut in the ''Village Voice'' jazz poll. Reynolds received a

with Snarky Puppy in 2017, four ASCAP Young Jazz Composer awards, and Berklee's Billboard Magazine Endowed Scholarship.

Discography

As leader

* ''Live at the Jazz Corner'' (BRM, 2003) * ''Can't Wait for Perfect'' (Fresh Sound, 2005) * ''Live in New York'' (BRM, 2010) * ''A Live Life'' (BRM, 2011) * ''Somewhere In Between'' (BRM, 2013) * ''Déjà Vu'' (BRM, 2015) * ''Guitar Band'' (BRM, 2017) * ''Hindsight'' (BRM, 2017) * ''Quartet'' (BRM, 2018) * ''A Message for Mobley'' (BRM, 2019) * ''Runway'' (BRM, 2020) * ''Boston 2000'' (BRM, 2022)

As sideman

With

* '' We Like It Here'' ( Ropeadope, 2014) * ''

'' ( GroundUP, 2016) * ''

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'' (GroundUP, 2019) * ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall,' (GroundUP, 2020) With others *

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, ''The Space In Between'' (Gwizmon, 2010) *

, '' Where the Light Is'' (Columbia, 2008) * John Mayer, ''

Battle Studies ''Battle Studies'' is a book by Ardant du Picq, a colonel in the French Army who was killed in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War. The work was never completed, but Du Picq had written many chapters completely and left sufficient notes behind to com ...

'' ( BMG, 2009) *

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, " Smooth Talkin'" *

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, ''Industry Rule'' (BGR, 2001) * Jonah Smith, ''Beneath the Underdog'' (BGR, 2003) * Anthony Wilson, ''Frogtown'' (Goat Hill, 2016) *

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, "''If You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)''" (Notes on a Conditional Form, 2020)

Awards and honors

*4x ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards *Berklee's Billboard Magazine Endowed Scholarship *2016: Member of Snarky Puppy on ''

'',

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording arti ...

*2021: Member of Snarky Puppy on ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall,'' ,

References

External links

Official website

Bob Reynolds on ON THE HIT with DEANE OGDEN podcast, March 25, 2014
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