The Reggie Workman Outfit was formed with the bassist in the 1980s. The group’s initial documenting was a live 1986 functionality at NYC’s Knitting Stock, released as Synthesis on Leo Information. A couple of years afterwards, another live documenting, Images, emerged over the Music & Arts label. Both recordings included clarinetist Don Byron, vocalist Jeanne Lee, and percussionist Gerry Hemingway; guitarist Michele Navazio acquired exited by the next discharge, while pianist Marilyn Crispell became a member of on.