Alto Reed | This Is My Life | Bob Seger | Silver Bullet Band |

Описание:   / alto.reed   Alto Reed is an American saxophonist best known as a long-time member of Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. His most recognizable performances include the introduction to "Turn the Page" and the saxophone solo in "Old Time Rock and Roll".

Reed has also recorded the soundtracks for two of Jeff Daniels' films, and has performed with many bands and musicians, such as Foghat, Grand Funk Railroad, Little Feat, Otis Rush, Enchantment, Jamie Oldaker, George Terry, Dave Mason, Spencer Davis, Tico Torres, Dan Aykroyd, James Belushi, The Blues Brothers, The Ventures, George Thorogood, Robin Gibb and in Romania with the band Holograf.

Having been to a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band in 2004, Reed performed with The Ventures in 2008, and played at the Waldorf Astoria when the Ventures invited him to perform with them on "Hawaii Five-O", for their own induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Reed and his band, The Blues Entourage, performed at the 2009 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. One of the members of the band, Steve Thorpe, died in August 2010.

The Reed & Dickinson Band (Alto Reed & Steve Dickinson, singer songwriter) has released an album Tonight We Ride, with musicians Jimmy McCarty and Johnny Badanjek, Jimmy Bones, Stephanie Eulinberg, lead guitarist Bobby East, Roger Noonan, Bernie Palo and Jeff Fawlkes. Reed played at Canadian blues festivals including Windsor and London, Ontario, with his Motor City AllStars, composed of musicians Bernie Palo, Steve Byrnes and vocalist Kathleen Murray and the rhythm section from the 'Groove Council'.

Reed toured with Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band in 2011 their North American spring tour from late March through the end of May, again for a new tour that ran from November 1 through December 30, 2011 and that resumed in mid-January 2012.
On May 19, 2012, Reed was inducted into the Canadian Blues Hall of Fame in Windsor, Ontario, and headlined at blues festivals across Canada in summer 2012 including London, Ontario, on July 13 and Windsor, Ontario, on July 14, 2012.

Reed performed "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Game 4 of the American League championship series of Major League Baseball on October 12, 2011, and before the Thanksgiving Day NFL game between the Detroit Lions and Houston Texans on November 22, 2012.