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Tomeka Reid

1977–

United States

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Tomeka Reid (born 1977) is an American composer, improviser, cellist, curator, and teacher. Reid has performed and recorded with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Nicole Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, the AACM Great Black Music Ensemble, Mike Reed's Loose Assembly, and Roscoe Mitchell. She leads the Tomeka Reid Quartet, with Tomas Fujiwara, Jason Roebke, and Mary Halvorson, and is co-leader of Hear in Now, a trio with Mazz Swift and Silvia Bolognesi.

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