Myra Melford
From her first album in 1991, it was clear that this pianist and composer would stay around, the New York Times said of Myra Melford. Melford has not only stuck around, but she has flourished. She has appeared on more than 20 recordings, including nine as a leader , performed in more than 30 countries, won major awards for composition and piano performance, and worked with some of the world's most innovative musicians. Melford's staying power is the product of ceaseless musical travels; she's always going somewhere. As Francis Davis noted , Myra Melford is the genuine article, the most gifted pianist/composer to emerge from jazz since Anthony Davis.
At the keyboard, Melford recasts the blues and boogie- woogie of her Chicago hometown, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde stylings she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training.
Melford's remarkable breadth is ordered by a thoughtful, expressive sensibility, evocatively described by Coda Magazine: Myra Melford is at once a dancer, a romantic and a savage suckerpuncher at the bench . . . beating all hell out of the piano and making it beautiful.
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August 26, 2014
New Frequencies Fest: [email protected] San Francisco February 4-7, 2015
May 12, 2011
March 25, 2010
Myra Melford Presents Two Benefit Events for U.C. Berkeley Jazz and...
January 05, 2010
Jazz Musician of the Day: Myra Melford
September 04, 2009
The Jazz Session #79: Myra Melford
October 22, 2007
Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford Duo Coming to Firehouse 12 October 26th
December 01, 2006
Mike Schwartz/KSJS December Guest List Includes Aaron Goldberg, Myra...
June 21, 2006
Cryptogramophone Records to Release New CDs From Guitarist Nels Cline...
February 02, 2006
Vandermark 5 + Leroy Jenkins/Myra Melford/Kahil El'Zabar at The Cinema...
February 05, 2003
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