Jazz trio brings adventurous music and children's workshop to Glenfield School in Montclair on June 11

Reid/Mitchell/Reed, a trio of creative music’s leading lights—cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole Mitchell and drummer Mike Reed—will celebrate 50 years of boundary-pushing music from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) with interpretations of works by AACM composers. This rare opportunity to experience the trio—this is one of just three East Coast dates!—will be preceded by a free children’s music workshop with the group and a community hangout with free light fare.
This marks a new collaboration between the nonprofits Seed Artists and the Montclair Neighborhood Development Corporation (MNDC), and Glenfield School, an arts-centric middle school in Montclair that was recently featured in the short documentary Ceremony For This Time. The goals of the partnership:

• to bring exciting, adventurous music and arts to the community;
• to promote arts education;
• and to inspire curiosity, creativity and self-confidence through the arts.

The concert promises to be an ear- and mind-opener given the credentials of these master musicians. All three have performed around the world and are revered in avant-garde jazz as not just virtuosos but seekers. Reid wowed the audience at Seed Artists’ inaugural two-day Freedom of Sound festival last May at Montclair State University. Mitchell has won the DownBeat Magazine Critics’ Poll as Best Jazz Flutist (on the planet!) five years running. And Mike Reed heads a number of cutting-edge groups in Chicago and is Vice President of the AACM. This is a unique chance to catch their homage to AACM, the legendary collective founded in Chicago in 1965 and still at the vanguard of jazz and creative music.

The free pre-concert workshop is open to not just Glenfield students but children from the larger community, both the musically trained and the untrained but curious. A great opportunity to gain wisdom from world-class musicians.

“We’re honored that this remarkable trio chose Montclair for its brief swing east,” says Pheeroan akLaff, Seed Artists’ Executive Director and Co-Founder. “All the better that they’re helping us, Glenfield and MNDC to inspire the next generation. This is going to be something special.”

Kids are FREE, adults a $10 suggested donation. Pay-as-you-can.
Proceeds will directly fund future collaborative events.
When: Thursday, June 11th, 6-9pm (light fare, 6-7:30; workshop 6:30-7:30; concert 7:30-9pm.
Where: Glenfield Middle School, 25 Maple Ave., Montclair, NJ 07042 (Directions and further details at seedartists.org.)