![Album: Allium](https://www.catalyticsound.com/wp-content/uploads/allium.jpeg)
![Tomeka Reid](https://www.catalyticsound.com/wp-content/uploads/tomeka-reid.jpeg)
Tomeka Reid
Described as a “New Jazz Power Source” by the New York Times, cellist and composer TOMEKA REID has emerged as one of the most original, versatile, and curious musicians in Chicago’s bustling jazz and improvised music community over the last decade. Her distinctive melodic sensibility, always rooted in a strong sense of groove, has been featured in many distinguished ensembles over the years. Reid grew up outside of Washington D.C., but her musical career began after moving to Chicago in 2000. Her work with Nicole Mitchell and various Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians-related groups proved influential. By focusing on developing her craft in countless improvisational contexts, Reid has achieved a stunning musical fluency. She is a Foundation of the Arts (2019) and 3Arts Awardee (2016), and received her doctorate in music from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2017.
Discography
Antichamber Music
by Claudia Solal, Tomeka Reid, Katherine Young & Benoit Delbecq
Eight Pieces for Two Cellos
by Tomeka Reid & Fed Lonberg-Holm
Geometry Of Caves
by Tomeka Reid / Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris
Geometry of Distance
by Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Bynum / Joe Morris / Tomeka Reid
Geometry of Trees
by Tomeka Reid / Kyoko Kitamura / Taylor Ho Bynum / Joe Morris
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists
by Tomeka Reid
- New Additions
Immediate Sound Series Poster
from Ken Vandermark
Ithra
by Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams
Let Our Rejoicing Rise
by Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid
Nettles
by Rempis / Morris / Reid / Baker
Of Things Beyond Thule volume 2
by Joe McPhee / Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Brandon Lopez / Paal Nilssen-Love
Poster of the Catalytic Sound Festival 2022, Chicago
from Dan Grzeca
Shards and Constellations
by Alexander Hawkins & Tomeka Reid
The COVID Tapes
by Dave Rempis / Tomeka Reid / Joshua Abrams / Tim Daisy / Tyler Damon