We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Eight Pieces for Two Cellos

by Tomeka Reid and Fred Lonberg-Holm

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12 USD  or more

     

1.
Pluck It 04:00
2.
3.
Fragile 05:16
4.
5.
Rally 03:40
6.
C'mon 07:22
7.
Monti-Cello 04:51
8.
How Can We? 04:54

about

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 explo
ratory, they pay rev
-
erence 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 di
-
rect-to-stereo sans audience at Chicago’s Logan Art Center, with a cover that sports a painting by Lonberg-Holm.

credits

released October 21, 2022

Recorded at Logan Art Center, Chicago, direct-to-stereo by David L. Allen on
September 21, 2013.
Prepared for release by Gordon Comstock.
Mastered by Alex Inglizian, Experimental Sound Studio.
Cover painting, “Promenade,” FLH

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Corbett vs. Dempsey Chicago, Illinois

contact / help

Contact Corbett vs. Dempsey

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Eight Pieces for Two Cellos, you may also like: