James Reese

Wait For Me James Reese

Trombonist, bandleader, songwriter, arranger and producer James Reese never issued an album with his Progressions band, only a

series of 45s - some under his own name, some under that of his collaboraors - out of Spartanburg, South Carolina on his Najma

label, from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. He was as ambitious as he was talented, and his ouevre ranges from brutal, deep soul to

sophisticated instrumental ballads to jazz-inflected funk.