FOR MANY YEARS RUFUS REID HAS BEEN KNOW AS THE Evolving Bassist, also the title of his best-selling bass method book, now in it’s fourth decade of publication. As a sideman, Reid has performed with many mainstream jazz heavyweights, including Dexter Gordon, Eddie Harris, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Thad Jones, and Mel Lewis.

RODNEY “SKEET” CURTIS BOASTS A BOTTOM-END RESUME that moves from Funkadelic’s One Nation Under a Groove to Maceo Parker’s Roots and Grooves. A powerhouse funkster, Skeet assimilated the innovations of James Jamerson, Stanley Clarke and Larry Graham, and developed his own way of delivering the funk. His playing embodies all of the elements of funk, R&B, and jazz in a way that is unmistakably Skeet.