350 copies limited edition*
The Tomeka Reid Quartet - dance! skip! hop! featuring the steady quartet of Tomeka Reid (cello) with Mary Halvorson (guitar), Jason Roebke (bass), and Tomas Fujiwara (drums). Soon after finishing these compositions in June 2025, Reid realized that much of the music made her want to dance. Inspired by the title of Josh Berman’s stellar A Dance and a Hop, as well as her tendency to skip in public, the title dance! skip! hop! was born. Reid has a deep connection to her family, and her album art and song titles often pay tribute to them, with the art for dance! skip! hop! featuring her great grandmother Francis Elizabeth Bean, her grandmother Estelle, and her great Aunt Cece throughout. Having visited the paternal side of her family in Wyoming for the first time in 2008, Reid was immediately struck by the house of her great grandparents, which her Aunt Cece and siblings fashioned into a kind of family museum full of photos of family gatherings from generations before.
