Reginald "Reggie" Workman (born June 26, 1937)[1] is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey, in addition to Alice Coltrane, Mal Waldron, Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Trio Three (with Oliver Lake and Andrew Cyrille), Trio Transition, the Reggie Workman Ensemble, and collaborative projects with dance, poetry and drama.

Early in his career, Workman worked in jazz groups led by Freddie Cole, Gigi Gryce,[2] Donald Byrd, Duke Jordan and Booker Little.

[2] Workman also played with Freddie Cole, Lee Morgan, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann and Thelonious Monk.

[8] In 2020, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in collaboration with Maya Milenovic Workman [9] and was named by the National Endowment of the Arts an NEA Jazz Master.

[7] With Trio Transition With Trio 3 With Juhani Aaltonen With Roy Ayers With Gary Bartz With Art Blakey With Hamiet Bluiett With The Bridgewater Brothers With Roy Brooks With Marion Brown With Donald Byrd With Don Byron With Steve Cohn With Earl Coleman With Johnny Coles With Adegoke Steve Colson With Alice Coltrane With John Coltrane With Stanley Cowell With Marilyn Crispell With Andrew Cyrille With Sussan Deyhim With Bill Dixon With Eric Dolphy With Booker Ervin With Mario Escalera With Chris Fagan With Art Farmer With Sonny Fortune With Hal Galper With Grant Green With Gigi Gryce With Billy Harper With Andrew Hill With Terumasa Hino With Takehiro Honda With Freddie Hubbard With Bobby Hutcherson With The Jazz Composer's Orchestra With Elvin Jones With Clifford Jordan With Duke Jordan With Oliver Lake With Yusef Lateef With Booker Little With Living Colour With Herbie Mann With Miya Masaoka With Cristina Mazza With Ken McIntyre With Roscoe Mitchell With Grachan Moncur III With James Moody With Lee Morgan With David Murray With New York Art Quartet With Dave Pike With Sam Rivers With Max Roach With Charlie Rouse With Hilton Ruiz With Pharoah Sanders With Ellen May Shashoyan With Archie Shepp With Wayne Shorter With Sonny Simmons With Heiner Stadler With Sonny Stitt With Monnette Sudler With Aki Takase With Horace Tapscott With John Tchicai and Andrew Cyrille With Charles Tolliver With Mickey Tucker With Edward Vesala With Mal Waldron With Cedar Walton With Tyrone Washington With Richard Williams With Frank Wright With Attila Zoller