Tomeka Reid String Quartet. Photo by Jasmine Kwong
"In 2021, I was awarded a New Jazz Works Commission for the Tomeka Reid String Quartet. While an Artist in Residence for the Moers Jazz Festival in 2022, I composed a new book of pieces for the group. As I was doing a lot of concerts of first meetings throughout my tenure there, I wanted to be more intentional with how I incorporate fully improvised sections in conversation with the written material with this new book of compositions. I often navigate both freely improvised music and tunes-based music, yet I have never really explored both in extended form on my records. We have been exploring different variations of these pieces and I am excited to share them work during my Stone Residency week on August 19th, 2023"
-Tomeka Reid
World Premiere of Three and Three at The Stone http://thestonenyc.com/
August 19, 2023 at 8:30pm
