Eric Scott Reed was born in 1970 is an American jazz pianist and composer🎷✨ 🎤🎼🎹🎶. His group black note released several albums in the 1990s. Reed was born in Philadelphian, Pennsylvania. He began playing piano at age two, was playing piano🎹 in his minister father’s church by age five, and at age seven began formal study at Philadelphia’sSettlement Music School . At age 11 his family moved to Los Angeles, and he studied at the R. D. Colburn School of Arts.

In May 1986, at Colburn School, Reed met Wynton Marsalis , an encounter that would greatly aid his career. At age 18, during a year of college at California State University, Northridge , Reed briefly toured with Marsalis. He joined Marsalis’s septet a year later, and worked with him from 1990 to 1991 (in 1991–1992 he worked with  Joe Henderson and Freddie Hubbard 🎷💕❤!!!!), and again from 1992 to 1995. He later worked with the Lincoln centre for two years (1996–1998), and led his own group in 1999.

Reed has also worked as a composer, scoring music for independent and mainstream films, including the comedy “life”, featuring   Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence .Three of his albums have charted on the Billboard’ Top Jazz Albums chart: 1995’s ” The swing and I “, 1988’s ” Pure imagination “, and 1999’s ” Manhattan melodies “.

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