Reuben Wilson

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Inner City Blues 00:00 Tools
Orange Peel 00:00 Tools
Hot Rod 00:00 Tools
Ronnie's Bonnie 00:00 Tools
Bus Ride 00:00 Tools
The Sweet Life 00:00 Tools
Love Bug 00:00 Tools
We're In Love 00:00 Tools
Superfly 00:00 Tools
Bambu 00:00 Tools
Blue Mode 00:00 Tools
Sho-Nuff Mellow 00:00 Tools
Got To Get Your Own '98 06:02 Tools
Tight Money 00:00 Tools
The Cisco kid 00:00 Tools
Mr. Big Stuff 00:00 Tools
After Hours 00:00 Tools
Organ Donor 00:00 Tools
Stormy 00:00 Tools
I Say A Little Prayer 00:00 Tools
Set Us Free 05:09 Tools
Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) 00:00 Tools
Got To Get Your Own 00:00 Tools
Blue For McDuff 00:00 Tools
Now's The Time 00:00 Tools
Old Time Shuffle Blues 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Comin' 00:00 Tools
Knock On Wood 00:00 Tools
Right On With This Mess 00:00 Tools
Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) 00:00 Tools
Honey Dripper 00:00 Tools
Twenty-Five Miles 00:00 Tools
Hold On I'm Comin' 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) 05:34 Tools
Sugar 06:13 Tools
Trouble Man 00:00 Tools
Back At The Chicken Shack 00:00 Tools
Groovin' 05:54 Tools
Sho' Nuff Melon 00:00 Tools
Willow Weep For Me 00:00 Tools
Tom's Thumb 00:00 Tools
Stoned Out Of My Mind 00:00 Tools
Sho'Nuff Melon 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When Your Down and Out 03:00 Tools
Please Send Me Someone To Love 00:00 Tools
Stormy - Digitally Remastered 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 05:32 Tools
On Broadway 00:00 Tools
Sabotage 00:00 Tools
Hold on, I'm Coming 00:00 Tools
Flipity Flop 00:00 Tools
The last tango in Paris 00:00 Tools
What The People Gon' Say 00:00 Tools
Sho Nuff Mellow 00:00 Tools
Back Out 00:00 Tools
Never can say goodbye 00:00 Tools
In The Booth, In The Back, In The Corner, In The Dark 00:00 Tools
Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) 00:00 Tools
Back Rub 00:00 Tools
The Okie Dokie 00:00 Tools
Hey Ladies 00:00 Tools
Bambu - 1997 - Remaster 00:00 Tools
Yes Sir 00:00 Tools
Brass Monkey 07:13 Tools
I'll take you there 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Coming - 1997 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Cream puff 05:33 Tools
Baby I Love You 02:48 Tools
Hold On! I'm Comin' 00:00 Tools
Egg Raid on Mojo 00:00 Tools
Intergalactic 00:00 Tools
While the world lies waiting 00:00 Tools
So What'cha Want 00:00 Tools
Snaps 00:00 Tools
Something's Got to Give 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues (Youthful Expressions) 00:00 Tools
Together (You And Me) 00:00 Tools
The look of love 00:00 Tools
Namaste 00:00 Tools
Sweet tooth 00:00 Tools
Groove grease 00:00 Tools
Stormy (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Everday I Have The Blues 00:00 Tools
Stella By Starlight 00:00 Tools
Cisco kid 00:00 Tools
Shake Your Rump 00:00 Tools
Still Grooving 00:00 Tools
Stormy (Stormy) 00:00 Tools
We_re_In_Love 00:00 Tools
We've only just begun 00:00 Tools
Loft Funk 00:00 Tools
A groovy situation 00:00 Tools
Happy together 00:00 Tools
Poinciana 00:00 Tools
Cooky Puss 00:00 Tools
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) 00:00 Tools
Scrapple From The Apple 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blu 00:00 Tools
Stormy (Love Bug) 00:00 Tools
Blues For RW 00:00 Tools
Blues For McDuff 00:00 Tools
Sweet home Chicago 00:00 Tools
Long Live New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Ain't That Peculiar 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Comin 00:00 Tools
My Blues 00:00 Tools
Creampuff 05:28 Tools
Summer Sun 00:00 Tools
Got To Get Your Own - 7" Short Edit 00:00 Tools
Summertime 00:00 Tools
We're In Love ['Memory Lane (Sittin' in Da Park)'] 00:00 Tools
Whats Going On 00:00 Tools
Watch Me Fly 00:00 Tools
People Get Ready 00:00 Tools
Slick Willie 00:00 Tools
My Father's Song 00:00 Tools
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours 00:00 Tools
Easy Talk 00:00 Tools
Kitchen Fire Blues 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You (When You're Down & Out) 00:00 Tools
Streets of Laredo 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Coming (1997 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - 1996 Digital Remaster 00:00 Tools
Once In A While 00:00 Tools
Sweet Feet 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Down Hill 00:00 Tools
The Honeydripper 00:00 Tools
Movin' On 00:00 Tools
Just My Imagination 00:00 Tools
Moonlight In Vermont 00:00 Tools
Light My Fire 00:00 Tools
Azure Te 00:00 Tools
We're In Love (Memory Lane) 00:00 Tools
The Funkster 00:00 Tools
Sexual Healing 00:00 Tools
Why Can`t I Touch You 00:00 Tools
Minor Yours 00:00 Tools
If You Let Me Make Love To You Then Why Can't I Touch You 00:00 Tools
Feel Free 00:00 Tools
I`m Yours 00:00 Tools
Aint That Peculiar 00:00 Tools
We Re In Love 00:00 Tools
For the Love of You 00:00 Tools
Groove On 00:00 Tools
Bambu - 1997 Remaster 00:00 Tools
Monkey Milk 00:00 Tools
Love Time 00:00 Tools
Bambu (1997 - Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Hold On! I'm Comin' [*] 00:00 Tools
Waita Minute 00:00 Tools
Together (You & Me) 00:00 Tools
Bambu (Digitally Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Got To Get Your Own (7" short edit) 00:00 Tools
Bambu - Remastered 1997 00:00 Tools
Sho-Nuff Mellow (1996 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
You Send Me 00:00 Tools
01. Hot Rod 00:00 Tools
Fun House 00:00 Tools
Funk Farm 00:00 Tools
Hold Come, I´m Coming 00:00 Tools
We're In The Money 00:00 Tools
Sho' Nuff Mellow 00:00 Tools
Here We Go 00:00 Tools
Shadrach 00:00 Tools
Miss Mansfield 00:00 Tools
What You Won't Do For Love 00:00 Tools
Down With It 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - 1996 Digital Remaster; Digital Version 00:00 Tools
05. Stormy 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues ['Youthful Expression'] 00:00 Tools
Tight Money [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues - Reuben Wilson 00:00 Tools
Caught Up In The Rapture 00:00 Tools
Stormy (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
04. Love Bug 00:00 Tools
"Love Bug" 00:00 Tools
At Last 00:00 Tools
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (1996 Digital Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Groove Ahead 00:00 Tools
sho nuff melon 00:00 Tools
Dr No Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Speakin' With The Deacon 00:00 Tools
Namasté 00:00 Tools
Were in Love 00:00 Tools
Ronnie´s Bonnie 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Comin' (bonus) 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Coming - 1997 Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
One 2 Four 00:00 Tools
Funhouse 00:00 Tools
Please Send Someone To Love 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues (Youthful Expression) 00:00 Tools
Stormy (Remaster) 00:00 Tools
Superfly - Reuben Wilson 00:00 Tools
If You Let Me Make Love To You Then Why Can't I Touch You (From the musical production ''Salvation'') 00:00 Tools
Rod'S Tune 00:00 Tools
Meet Dr No - Iii Blind 00:00 Tools
We're In Love (NAS-Memory Lane) 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And Out) 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Hold On I'm Comin' 00:00 Tools
What the People Gon Say 00:00 Tools
I Say Little Prayer 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues (High Quality) 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Sho'Nuff Melon 00:00 Tools
Mercy, Mercy, Me (The Ecology) 00:00 Tools
Meet Dr No - Under The Mango Tree 00:00 Tools
I'm yours 00:00 Tools
06 mercy mercy me (the ecology) 00:00 Tools
Tight Money (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Hold On I'm Coming 00:00 Tools
Last Tango in Paris 00:00 Tools
Ronnieґs Bonnie 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out 00:00 Tools
inner city blues' 00:00 Tools
02 we're in love 00:00 Tools
Why Can't I Touch You 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Dr No Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Mercy Mercy Me 00:00 Tools
Easy Talk - Reuben Wilson, Marr, H. 00:00 Tools
04 mr big stuff 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Mr. Big Stuff 00:00 Tools
05 right on with this mess 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Inner City Blues 00:00 Tools
07 tom's thumb 00:00 Tools
Under The Mango Tree 00:00 Tools
Bamboo 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Coming (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Meet Dr No - III Blind 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - back out 00:00 Tools
(If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why Can't I Touch You? 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Bus Ride 00:00 Tools
Hold On, I'm Coming (1997 Remastered Version) 00:00 Tools
Hold On Im Comin 00:00 Tools
A 03 - Bus Ride 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Meet Dr No - Under The Mango Tree 00:00 Tools
“We’re in Love” 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson / Superfly 00:00 Tools
For the Love of You - Reuben Wilson, Isley Bros. 00:00 Tools
Vinyl Junkie 00:00 Tools
Got To Get Your Own (Short) 00:00 Tools
4.Reuben Wilson - Orange peel 00:00 Tools
Twenty Five Miles 00:00 Tools
Inner City Hard Times 00:00 Tools
got to get your own (d.s. edit) 00:00 Tools
04 - Orange Peel 00:00 Tools
Mercy, Mery Me (The Ecology) 00:00 Tools
Creampuff [Mr. Lob] 00:00 Tools
Sho-Nuf Mellow 00:00 Tools
Inner City Bleus 00:00 Tools
Cooking In Grease 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler) 00:00 Tools
A 01 - Bambu 00:00 Tools
Cooky Pussy 00:00 Tools
Hold On I m Comin 00:00 Tools
1-1 What The People Gon' Say 00:00 Tools
Reuben Wilson - Orange Peel 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows You W 00:00 Tools
Groovy Situation 00:00 Tools
First Come First Serve 00:00 Tools
Weve Only Just Begun 00:00 Tools
Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna H 00:00 Tools
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Reuben Wilson was one of many soul-jazz organists to emerge in the late '60s, but he was one of only a handful of new organists from that era to be signed to Blue Note. Between 1968 and 1971, he recorded five sessions for the label. None of his records received much acknowledgment at the time, but they were later rediscovered by a new generation of soul-jazz fans, becoming collector's items within acid jazz and soul-jazz circles. Wilson began performing professionally in 1962. A native of Mounds, OK, he moved to Pasadena, CA, as a child, where he attended school with such future jazz musicians as Bobby Hutcherson and Herb Lewis. As a teenager, Wilson began to teach himself to play piano, but his attention was diverted by boxing, which landed him a sparring gig with heavyweight Floyd Patterson, and perhaps more notably, landed him an acting spot in the landmark feature film, Carmen Jones. When he was 17, he moved to Los Angeles and married a nightclub singer, through whom he met a number of professional musicians. Associating with musicians convinced Wilson to return to music. Instead of pursuing the piano, he decided to take up the organ, and it wasn't long before he became a regular at the Caribbean club, where he played with drummer Eddie Williams, guitarist George Freeman, and, eventually, Clifford Scott (of Bill Doggett’s “Honky Tonk” fame). He played the L.A. circuit for several years before deciding to try his luck in Las Vegas. That venture proved unsuccessful, so he moved back to L.A., where he struck up a friendship with Richard "Groove" Holmes, an organist who would greatly influence his own style. In December 1966, Wilson relocated to New York, New York, where he formed a soul-jazz trio, the Wildare Express, with drummer Tommy Derrick. The Wildare Express lasted about six months, recording one album for Brunswick, and playing venues throughout the East Coast and Detroit, and then Wilson decided to concentrate on more complex variations of hard bop and soul-jazz. Eventually, such respected musicians as Grant Green, Roy Haynes, and Sam Rivers began playing with Wilson. Around the same time, Blue Note offered the organist a contract based on a demo he had sent the label. On Broadway, Wilson's first album for Blue Note, was a quartet session featuring his old bandmate Derrick and was recorded in October of 1968. It was followed in March of 1969 by Love Bug, which featured contributions from trumpeter Lee Morgan and guitarist Grant Green. His third album, Blue Mode, was cut in December, 1969 and offered some of his hottest playing. With his fourth album, 1970's A Groovy Situation, Wilson moved in a commercial direction, much like many of his Blue Note peers. In July of 1971, he recorded Set Us Free, his final album for the label. Wilson's contract with Blue Note expired after Set Us Free and he moved to Groove Merchant, where he released three albums – Cisco Kid, Cisco Kid, Bad Stuff, and The Sweet Life – during the mid-'70s. He then recorded a cult club classic for Cadet, And the Cost of Money. Throughout the decade, he also played on sessions by funk, soul, and jazz artists, including a record by the Fatback Band. During the late '70s, he recorded sporadically, eventually retiring from music in the early '80s. By the late '80s, Wilson's music had been rediscovered by a new generation, listeners who didn't dismiss his records as commercial fluff. Like several of his peers, his late-'60s and '70s records, through sampling, became cornerstones in the newly emerging acid jazz and jazz-rap genres. Soon, his out of print records became collector's items, and his sampled licks were appearing on dancefloors throughout England and parts of New York. Eventually, samples of his records were included on hit albums by A Tribe Called Quest, Us3, Brand New Heavies, and Nas. In light of all this new attention, Wilson decided to return to performing, and he toured with Guru's Jazzmatazz revue in 1995. He also began writing new material and performing in new groups, including combos he led himself. In 1996, he signed to Hip Bop and recorded Organic Grooves with Dr. Lonnie Smith and Doug Carn. Throughout the last decade he’s continued recording both solo albums as well as funk full-lengths with the group, Godfathers of Groove, which features Grant Green Jr. and Bernard Purdie. He continues to perform in clubs and festivals across the world, from the Montreux and Monterey Jazz festivals to the Jazz Standard and Great American Music Hall. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.