Best Bets: Jazz group Tomeka Reid Quartet to perform at Hancher Nov. 2

In the mood for adventuresome jazz? Cellist Tomeka Reid's hard-grooving quartet will deliver. Along with guitarist Mary Halvorson (a newly-minted MacArthur Genius), bass player Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, the quartet will whip up an intoxicating brew of musical flavors, many of which flow from Reid's imagination. Tickets have been snapped up for the 6:30 p.m. show in Hancher's intimate Strauss Hall, but may still be available for the late show. Whet your appetite at a free public discussion with the musicians at 7 p.m. Friday (11/1), also in Strauss Hall.

Tomeka Reid Quartet

9 p.m. Saturday (11/2), Strauss Hall, Hancher, 141 E. Park Rd., Iowa City; $10 to $15, Hancher Ticket Office, 1-(800) HANCHER, (319) 335-1160 or Hancher.uiowa.edu/2019-20/TomekaReid