It's been nearly five decades since Joe McPhee assembled a group of musicians to perform the weekend concerts that would become Nation Time, his debut LP. It was December 1970, thirty-one-year-old...
Thirsty Ear would like to congratulate Tomeka Reid, Jazz Cellist and Composer, as a Fellow for the 2022 MacArthur Genius Award. Over the last decade or so Chicago cellist and composer Tomeka Reid has...