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Suoni Per Il Popolo 2016

Read "Suoni Per Il Popolo 2016" reviewed by Mike Chamberlain


Suoni Per Il Popolo La Sala Rossa Montréal, Canada June 2-19, 2016 The final weekend of the 16th Suoni Per Il Popolo featured several notable performances by jazz-based artists: Myra Melford and Francois Bourassa; Luc Ex's Assemblee; and The Thing, with guest James Blood Ulmer. The program by pianists Melford and Bourassa at the concert hall of the Conservatoire de Musique de Montreal on Thursday, June 16 was divided into three parts: solo ...

Album Review

Myra Melford, Ben Goldberg: Dialogue

Read "Dialogue" reviewed by Stefano Merighi


Quando il duo Goldberg-Melford fu ascoltato dal vivo in Italia, giusto tre anni fa, apparve, al di là delle straordinarie doti strumentali dei due, ancora in fase di preparazione. Una titubanza latente affiorava in quel camerismo elegante, spesso sussurrato, quasi mai sprigionante le ben note potenzialità di tali esecutori. Il presente Dialogue, al contrario, focalizza con più convinzione le diverse sfaccettature della musica, improntata comunque ad un camerismo sorvegliato e raffinato, ma più disponibile al graffio e all'esuberanza ...

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Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg: Dialogue

Read "Dialogue" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


In their first duo release Dialogue avant-garde jazz pianist Myra Melford and clarinetist Ben Goldberg's two instruments move in tandem yet independently, complimenting one another while exhibiting distinct qualities. At the forefront of open-minded music, the two have worked together in other ensembles yet performed sporadically as a duo since 2008. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford is a fearless improviser and bandleader of several groups with exceptional recordings The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12, 2010) and Snowy Egret(Yellobird,2015). A consummate ...

Live Review

Jazz&Wine of Peace 2015

Read "Jazz&Wine of Peace 2015" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Jazz&Wine of Peace Festival Cormons, Collio, Nova Gorica, Goriška Brda 22-25.10.2015 Diciottesima edizione del festival friulano, come gli ultimi anni ampiamente disseminato nel territorio circostante, per cantine, ville e chiese, non solo in territorio italiano ma anche nell'adiacente Brda slovena. Dopo alcuni prologhi, il più importante dei quali era il solo dell'emergente e autorevole fisarmonicista francese Vincent Peirani, la rassegna si è aperta la sera di Giovedì 22 ottobre con un concerto ...

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Myra Melford: Snowy Egret

Read "Snowy Egret" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Restlessly innovative pianist and composer Myra Melford brings her exploratory approach and her adventurous melodic sense to her 2015 release Snowy Egret with her new ensemble of the same name. The inspiration for this intriguing album is Uruguayan author Eduardo Galleano's Memory of Fire trilogy. Originally part of a multimedia performance called the “Language of Dreams" the music, full of provocative harmonic ideas and a cinematic ambience, plays as a soundtrack of an art film.The haunting and wistful ...

Album Review

Myra Melford: Snowy Egret

Read "Snowy Egret" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Snowy Egret fa parte di un ampio e ambizioso progetto articolato in immagini, performance di danza, recitazione e musica, denominato Language of Dreams e ispirato a “Memory of Fire" trilogia sulla storia delle Americhe dell'autore uruguaiano Eduardo Galeano. In linea con l'estetica della pianista di Chicago la musica di Snowy Egret risulta sofisticata, rigorosa nelle sue geometrie, articolata nello sviluppo, complessa nei significati, percepibile a più livelli ma con una linea comunicativa più diretta e immediata che la rendono maggiormente ...

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Myra Melford: Snowy Egret

Read "Snowy Egret" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Based on her multidimensional jazz schematics amid associations with like-minded artists nestled in the modern wave of jazz composers and improvisers, you wouldn't expect pianist, Myra Melford to compose works based on evening strolls in the park or mundane issues, for example. With her top-flight ensemble, Melford frames this plot on Eduardo Galeano's lucid and poetic Memory of Fire trilogy, concerning historical facets of the Western Hemisphere. And as surmised, the pianist consummates a broad perspective with these incandescent tomes, ...


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