Eric Reed got his start on piano at age six, playing in his father's storefront Baptist church in Philadelphia. When the family relocated to Los Angeles, Reed began a deep study of jazz piano, developing a style overflowing with technique but steeped in driving swing. Word got out about the young man burning up the keyboard. In 1991, he left college in his freshman year, to go on the road with Wynton Marsalis.Reed has worked as a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson and many other jazz greats, and led his own ensembles for nearly two decades. In October of 2011, he sat down with Ken Druker at a Jazz at Lincoln Center Listening Party to discuss the making of his twentieth album.