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Tomeka Reid

Chicago based cellist, composer and educator, Tomeka Reid has been described as "a remarkably versatile player," (Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune). Equally adept in classical and jazz contexts, Ms. Reid predominantly finds herself in experimental and improvisatory settings and composes for a wide range of instrumentation, from big band to chamber ensemble. Ms. Reid's music combines her love for groove along with freer concepts. Ms. Reid is an integral part of Dee Alexander's Evolution Ensemble, Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble/Strings, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) Great Black Music Ensemble, and co-leads the internationally recognized string trio, Hear in Now with performances in Poznan, Poland; Paris, France; Rome, Venice, Milan, Italy; Soazza, Switzerland; and in the US: Chicago, New York and Vermont

Dance! Skip! Hop!

By Tomeka Reid

Label: Out of Your Heads Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dance! Skip! Hop!; a(ways) For CC and CeCe; Oo long!; Under the Aurora Sky; Silver Spring Fig Tree.

Dream Archives

By Craig Taborn

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: 1. "Coordinates for the Absent" 2. "Feeding Maps to the Fire" 3. "When Kabuya Dances" 4. "Mumbo Jumbo" 5. "Dream Archive" 6. "Enchant"

Transcend

By Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Come Sunday; Energy Fields; Gentle Collapse; Heaven; Curious Species; Argle-Bargle; Oclupaca; Slabs; Transcend.

Mollestad / Reid / Warelis / Håker Flaten / Lillinger at the 19th Summer Jazz Academy

by Marek J. Śmietański
September 4, 2026

A collection of photos of the mentors of the International Jazz Platform concert at Wytwórnia in Lodz on July 22, 2026 featuring Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, Tomeka Reid, Marta Warelis, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Christian Lillinger. Other photo reports from the same festival: Dust Bunny at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, QuartSky at The 19th Summer Jazz Academy, The ...

New Music From The Scornful Four And More

by Bob Osborne
September 3, 2026

This international collection brings together a varied range of music , spanning current releases from independent labels alongside historical performances from earlier eras of the genre. It incorporates diverse stylistic approaches, moving across contemporary jazz compositions, avant-garde improvisations, and larger ensemble arrangements. By pairing recent releases with archival material, the sequence offers an insight into the ...

Vision Festival 2026, Part 1

by Luciano Rossetti
July 26, 2026

Dave Douglas: Transcend Is Not The End

by Lawrence Peryer
July 4, 2026

This week, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas. Douglas's latest album, Transcend (Greenleaf Music, 2026), came out in April 2026. It's the second record from GIFTS, his band with Rafiq Bhatia, James Brandon Lewis, Tomeka Reid, and Ian Chang. His last several records were openly political. This one turns ...

Joe Morris at Vision Fest 30

by Fran Kursztejn
June 28, 2026

Joe MorrisAbrons Arts CenterVision Festival New York, NYJune 23, 2026 “Joe Morris is the real deal," said Matthew Shipp, relating the first time he met the multi-hyphenate musician and educator, who was presented with the Arts for Art's Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th annual Vision Festival. Morris introduced himself ...

Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum: A Near Permanent State Of Wonder

by John Sharpe
June 25, 2026

Nearly two decades after first crossing paths in the transatlantic Convergence Quartet, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and pianist Alexander Hawkins reunite on A Near Permanent State Of Wonder, a recording that finds their rapport undimmed and their curiosity intact. In the intervening period Hawkins has become one of the most in demand pianists in Europe, as ...