Jazz Articles about Tomeka Reid

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Dave Douglas: Transcend

by Glenn Astarita
May 26, 2026

Dave Douglas has spent a career dodging his own shadow, and that restlessness is precisely what keeps his catalog from ever feeling stagnant. Transcend locates its friction point between two titans who seem unlikely to share the same oxygen: the spiritual grandeur of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts and the dense, mosaic canvases of painter Jack Whitten.The weight of the album rests on the chemistry of this specific quintet. With James Brandon Lewis on tenor, Tomeka Reid on cello, ...

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Tomeka Reid Quartet: Dance! Skip! Hop!

by Jeff Cebulski
April 30, 2026

Spring arrives; along with the typical climactic inconsistencies, the jazz market blooms. One of the early blossoms is a minor label treat, Dance! Skip! Hop! from the cellist Tomeka Reid and her quartet. This could be a major season for the adopted Chicagoan Reid, who is also featured on an ECM album from pianist Craig Taborn, Dream Archives (ECM Records, 2026). Dance! Skip! Hop! Is the album of choice, the second album from the quartet that includes the guitarist du jour Mary ...

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Tomeka Reid: The Low Seat, The Long Haul, And 'Dance! Skip! Hop!'

by Lawrence Peryer
April 25, 2026

Today, The Tonearm's needle drops on cellist and composer Tomeka Reid. Tomeka Reid has spent the last decade building one of the most distinctive voices in creative music. The New York Times called her a “New Jazz Power Source." She's a MacArthur Fellow, a founder of the Chicago Jazz String Summit, and a key collaborator with Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, and Craig Taborn, among many others. Her quartet with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke, and ...

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Tomeka Reid Quartet: Dance! Skip! Hop!

by Don Ball
March 19, 2026

If the fourth album from the Tomeka Reid Quartet proves nothing else, it is that the group has shown a remarkable capacity for getting better with each release. Not just in the strength and quality of the compositions, but also through the tightness and cohesiveness of the band. The title Dance! Skip! Hop! is apt for the album as the rhythms roll along through every song, all tying together like an album-long suite. With a band that tends ...

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Tomeka Reid, Marco Mezquida, ALA.NI, Craig Taborn & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
February 22, 2026

Enjoy a playlist dedicated to recent and upcoming releases, where curiosity still rules, and the music often comes from just around the corner... or halfway across the world, Barcelona to New York; Amsterdam to London; Brussels to Melbourne.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Marco Mezquida “Constantine" Táctil (Self-produced) 0:16 Host talks 5:12 Julian Lage “Talking Drum" Scenes From Above (Blue Note) 6:14 Host talks 11:17 Fabio de Almeida ...

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Unity Jazz Festival 2026 at Jazz At Lincoln Center

by Paul Reynolds
January 12, 2026

Unity Jazz FestivalOpening NightJazz at Lincoln CentreNew York, NY January 8, 2026 It does not rain--or snow--jazz in New York in the first week of January, it pours--or blizzards--the music. Winter JazzFest, the longtime colossus that takes over clubs in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn, has been joined in the past three years by the Unity Jazz Festival, which runs two marathon nights within the multiple spaces of the Jazz at Lincoln Center headquarters just north of ...

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Edgefest 2024

by Frank Rubolino
October 27, 2025