Tomeka Reid Quartet

In the organizer's words:

Just how much movement there is in the music of American cellist Tomeka Reid is indicated by the title of her latest album: dance! skip! hop! With her all-star quartet, which includes guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, the knee violin virtuoso dares to move across various genres, playfully but highly focused on her musical partners and shows us that the cello has completely different sound characteristics to those we are used to.

The well-known American author and jazz critic Nate Chinen recently prophesied that 2026 will be Tomeka Reid's year. The good man could be right. Because Tomeka Reid is omnipresent, and not just with her own band. She enhances the music of the Hemphill Stringtet, James Brandon Lewis' Red Lily Quintet, Tomas Fujiwara's 7 Poets Trio and Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet.

Within just a few years, Patricia Brennan has managed to play her way into the top ranks of international jazz. The vibraphonist has made indispensable contributions to the music of Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis Sextet, Dan Weiss' Unclassified Affections Quartet and various formations of the Swiss pianist/composer Sylvie Courvoisier. She also caused a stir with the follow-up to her Breaking Stretch album, Of The Near And Far, a stunning and highly atmospheric album for strings plus jazz ensemble inspired by her passion for astronomical phenomena.

Instrumentation:

Tomeka Reid (cello)

Mary Halvorson (git)

Jason Roebke (b)

Tomas Fujiwara (drums)