{"title":"Tomeka Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eTomeka Reid was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the area, schooling at BCC and UMD before relocating to Chicago. Since then she has become a rising star and mainstay of Chicago's venerable jazz, arts, and academic communities. In 2022, Reid was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation \"genius\" fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"eight-pieces-for-two-cellos-w-fred-lonberg-holm-lp","title":"Eight Pieces For Two Cellos (w\/ Fred Lonberg-Holm) (LP)","description":"Format: LP \u003cbr\u003e Label: Corbett vs. Dempsey  \u003cbr\u003eYear: 2022 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Media Condition: New \u003cbr\u003e Sleeve\/Cover Condition: New \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\n\nTRACKS: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nA1. Pluck It \u003cbr\u003e\nA2. Alla Mingus For La Bang \u003cbr\u003e\nA3. Fragile \u003cbr\u003e\nA4. In Walked Ray \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\nB5. 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By turns achingly beautiful -- utilizing all the woody resonance of the twinned instruments -- and probingly exploratory, they pay reverence to and also rethink their predecessors' music.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\nAlongside these historically-mined tracks are the player's own deeply engaging compositions. Reid's \"Alla Mingus For La Bang\" pays homage to one stringsman by way of another: bassist Charles Mingus to violinist Billy Bang. Lonberg-Holm's \"Fragile, C'mon,\" and \"How Can We?\" all investigate the cosmos of the celli with devilish relish.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\nGorgeously recorded direct-to-stereo sans audience at Chicago's Logan Art Center, with a cover that sports a painting by Lonberg-Holm. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\nTomeka Reid was born in Washington DC and grew up in the area, earning a music degree from UMD before relocating to Chicago where she really began to apply her classical training to jazz composition and performance.  Over two decades she has become a rising star and mainstay of Chicago's venerable jazz, arts, and academic communities.  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Their music advances the organization’s motto, “Ancient to the Future,” celebrating African-American culture while reaching across genres and integrating new, progressive ideas into the legacy of jazz and composition.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\nTomeka Reid explains the trio’s intent: “The aim with our first record was to bring our own approach to some of our favorite pieces, pieces that we thought would work especially well with our distinctive instrumentation. For this second album, we wanted to underscore that theme while also recognizing that we ourselves are also composers—we want to contribute to that canon of music.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c!-- audio --\u003e \u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n\t\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/www.capitolites.media\/previews\/LP-AndThenTheresThis.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\n","brand":"Artifacts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43713057521917,"sku":"22859174","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0516\/9384\/6695\/products\/LP-AndThenTheresThis-frt.jpg?v=1674757745"},{"product_id":"pivot-cd","title":"Pivot (CD)","description":"Format: CD \u003cbr\u003eLabel: Silkheart \u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMedia Condition: New \u003cbr\u003eSleeve\/Cover Condition: New \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \n\n1 The Sensation Of Sliding \u003cbr\u003e\n2 Blowing Out From Chicago \u003cbr\u003e\n3 Epistemological Glide \u003cbr\u003e\n4 Drops Of Sorrow. 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Not so with this ensemble.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"Some scores with directions and motifs that specify the relationships, but also the relationships prefiguring their being directed, relationships between the people themselves, the standing understanding between Mats and Ken, who worked together extensively for the last 30 years including the quartet version of Gustafsson's AALY and of course the Brötzmann Tentet.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"The relationship between Chad and Tomeka including the cellist's Hear in Now Expanded and in Rob Mazurek's bands; the one between Ken and Tomeka including a quartet with Hamid Drake and Lemuel Marc; one between Chad and Ken in the trio Side A, with pianist Håvard Wiik; one between Mats and Tomeka dating back to a 2017 studio session that might someday see light of day.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\"The relationships and their prepositions. Not only simple prepositions, like 'on' or 'in,' 'above' or 'below.' 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