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Tomeka Reid, Isidora Edwards & Elisabeth Coudoux – Reid/Edwards/Coudoux (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:05 minutes | 632 MB | Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Relative Pitch Records
We maneuver through woody sounds created by individual movements and decisions. Our cello playing is free from classical patterns, a real achievement! It is not natural to develop one’s own approach to this high culture instrument. In this trio there are three multi-layered variations of personal expressive will and power.
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Tomeka Reid & Fred Lonberg-Holm – Eight Pieces for Two Cellos (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:43 minutes | 415 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Corbett vs. Dempsey
Repertoire for cello represents a little-explored niche of the greater jazz songbook. In 2013, cellists Tomeka Reid and Fred Lonberg-Holm turned their arrangerly and composerly attention to this terrain, assembling a selection of four originals (three by Lonberg-Holm, one by Reid) and four works by other composers. The latter include “Pluck It” by pioneering jazz cellist Fred Katz, member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet and soundtrack composer for Roger Corman films; “In Walked Ray” by intrepid hardbop bassist and cellist Sam Jones, who worked extensively with Cannonball Adderly; “Rally” by legendary bassist and cellist Ron Carter, who played with everyone from Miles Davis to Eric Dolphy to A Tribe Called Quest; and “Monti-Cello” by Harry Babsin, the least recognizable name in the group who played cello duets with Oscar Pettiford and recorded the first jazz cello solos with Dodo Marmarosa Trio in 1947. These new takes on old charts provide a storied backdrop and contemporary diving-board for Reid and Lonberg-Holm. 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. Alongside 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 bowed and pizzed cosmos of the celli with devilish relish. Gorgeously recorded direct-to-stereo sans audience at Chicago’s Logan Art Center, with a cover that sports a painting by Lonberg-Holm.
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Dave Douglas, Berlinde Deman, Marta Warelis, Frederik Leroux, Tomeka Reid, Lander Gyselinck – Secular Psalms (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:05 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Greenleaf Music
Inspired by and dedicated to The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by Jan and Hubert van Eyck – a polyptych originally painted for display in St. Bavo’s Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. Begun in the mid 1420s and completed by 1432.Secular Psalms took shape over a medieval-seeming time span. The first messages from Wim date to July 10, 2018, when we began to formulate a plan to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Altarpiece with creation of new music. Research led to a few discoveries: elements of the polyptych were moved and/or stolen, then almost entirely recovered over the years. A restoration begun in 2012 discovered that the work had been mostly overpainted around 1550—removal of the overpaint revealed an almost entirely new contemporary vision of the piece.
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Alexander Hawkins, Tomeka Reid – Shards and Constellations (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:59 minutes | 800 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Intakt Records
Shards and Constellations presents duets with two remarkable musicians Tomeka Reid and Alexander Hawkins. Both have become creative epicenters in the jazz and improvisation scene in recent years with their original, versatile and innovative art. Reid has recorded extensively with many legendary artists from the AACM such as Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell as well as the next generation of AACM artists including Nicole Mitchell, Dee Alexander and Mike Reed.
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