New Music USA Online Library

Rufus Reid's major professional career began in Chicago and continues since 1976 in New York City.   Throughout these past thirty years, Rufus has written his own material to feature the bass, as there were little to no written nor published to feature the bass.  He began to acquire an impressive array of material designed specifically to showcase his playing and his compositions as a guest artist throughout the US and abroad.  He has arranged several of the American Songbook Standards for his own use. 

Below is a list of his original compositions written for various musical settings; solo, duos, trios, quartets, quintet, and large jazz ensembles and string orchestras. 

1.  Through Rose Colored Glasses
2.  Waltz For Doris
3.  Almost But Maybe
4.  No Place Is The End of The World
5.  Perpetual Stroll
6.  Elegy
7.  I Can’t Explain
8.  You Make Me Smile
9.  Struttin’ About
10. It’s The Nights I Like
11. It’s The Magical Look In Your Eyes
12. Corridor To The Limits
13. When She Smiles Upon Your Face
14. Some Slinkin’
15. Reminiscing
16. City Slicker
17. The Meddler
18. Whims Of The Bluebird
19. The Gait Keeper
20. Celestial Dance
21. Forever On My Mind
22. Ode To Ray
23. Skies Over Emilia
24. Celebration
25. On A Never Ending Stroll
26. LINEAR SURROUNDINGS
   4 mvts: Shadow Dance, Moods, The Peaceful Flame, Collage
27. QUIET PRIDE
   4 mvts: Recognition, Glory, Mother and Child, Singing Head
28. Dreamscapes
30. Come Out and Play
31. Hues Of A Different Blue
32. Time For Nostalgia
33. Caress The Thought
34. Vignettes

35.  Joy In The Oasis