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26 de oct. de 2018 · Melford, a pianist fascinated by improvisation from childhood, was drawn toward such key 1980s figures of the African American jazz avant garde as Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill, who showed ...
7 de mar. de 2024 · Live Review Myra Melford Fire and Water Quintet at SFJAZZ Center. by Roy Strassman November 19, 2022. Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA November 6, 2022 The Free jazz pianist and composer Myra Melford made the trip across the Bay Bridge to the SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab to bring her Fire and Water Quintet to an eagerly expectant audience.
Professor mmelford@berkeley.edu Originally from Chicago and classically trained, Myra Melford is a composer with a singular, kinetic, and lyrical voice in piano improvisation. Chicago blues, architecture, jazz and experimental music inspire her work. She has released over 40 recordings, including more than 20 as a leader or co-leader, and maintains three bands: the celebrated quintet Snowy ...
Melford visited Gaeta, the small coastal town in central Italy where Twombly made “For the Love of Fire and Water.” “I was mesmerized by watching the sunlight on the water,” she says. “My sense is that's what he was drawing, the different ways that the sea and the sun interact.”. Yet that collision is just one of the many ideas ...
Myra Melford | Credit: Bryan Murray Myra Melford has long explored the outer reaches of improvised and composed music and shared her discoveries around the world. After college in Washington state, she established a long-held base in Manhattan’s downtown avant-garde scene. Although she maintains that connection, we can count ourselves lucky that she now maintains a home in the Bay Area; a 16 ...
Upon returning to the States, Melford lived at an upstate New York ashram, and then began recording and releasing music informed by her travels and studies, beginning with the 2004 Arabesque release Where the Two Worlds Touch by Myra Melford's the Tent, inspired by the poetry of 13th century Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi and featuring Melford on piano and harmonium along with her ...
2 de may. de 2022 · “Hear The Light Singing” is the second album release from this stellar quintet led by the American pianist, composer and improviser Myra Melford. It follows the 2022 Rogue Art release “For The Love of Fire and Water” and in many respects the two recordings represent a unified work in that both are inspired by a series of drawings by the American visual artist Cy Twombly.
