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Myra Melford: Life Carries Me This Way

Read "Life Carries Me This Way" reviewed by Mark Corroto


All great artists turn their listeners into voyeurs, allowing them an intimate glimpse into their private thoughts. For pianist Myra Melford the invitation has been a long time coming. After twenty-plus years of recording, Life Carries Me This Way is her first solo session. She has drawn praise for her recent work in the collaborative Trio M with Matt Wilson and Mark Dresser, her quintet Snowy Egret, the electric-acoustic Be Bread, and a duo project Dialogue with Ben ...

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Myra Melford: Life Carries Me This Way

Read "Life Carries Me This Way" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Myra Melford's first solo disc, Life Carries Me This Way, is a musical exploration the paintings of California visual artist Don Reich. Rendering a painting--an art form that can be taken in at once, with one look--and addressing its moods, colors, shapes and textures over the course of a composition is not a easy task. Though in jazz, it's certainly not unheard of. The connection between abstract art and the improvisation-based music goes back at least to pianist Dave ...

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Myra Melford's Language of Dreams at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Read "Myra Melford's Language of Dreams at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts" reviewed by Harry S. Pariser


Myra Melford's Snowy Egret Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA November 8, 2013 Within the intimate confines of the YBCA Forum in the heart of San Francisco's museum district, a gray, out- of-focus video screened a country road. On one platform set directly under the screen, piano, drums, two chairs and two stools were set up in a row, awaiting the arrival of the musicians. A stage directly below held a large, ...

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Trio M: The Guest House

Read "The Guest House" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La formula è quella canonica del trio con piano-basso e batteria, ma la classe dei musicisti è tale e tanta da generare un avvincente flusso sonoro che fluttua liberamente. Già il brano iniziale è paradigmatico di una fluida ridefinizione del modello seguito, con sontuosi contrasti fra linee cantabili ed armonizzazioni scure e dissonanti. Qui basso e batteria hanno libera facoltà di sviluppare insieme al pianoforte una poderosa tensione espressiva che si risolve in assoli di non comune intensità e pregnanza. ...

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Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris: Verona

Read "Verona" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Di Butch Morris non ce n'è mai abbastanza. Sono passati la bellezza di 27 anni dall'ormai leggendario Current Trends in Racism in Modern America, che il primo febbraio del 1985, eseguito da un ensemble di dieci elementi (tra i quali Frank Lowe, Tom Cora e John Zorn), inaugurò il filone delle Conduction. 27 anni sono lunghi e 200 Conduction sono tante; eppure il viaggio prosegue, e a ogni tappa c'è sempre da drizzare le orecchie: il rischio è quello di ...

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Myra Melford Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Read "The Whole Tree Gone" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Atmosfere acustiche, un incipit dalla melodia solare, bucolica, quasi cinematografica. E' questa la sorprendente apertura del nuovo CD del Myra Melford Be Bread, gruppo che in passato ci aveva abituato a ben altre atmosfere ed a ben altre sonorità. Qui invece l'elettricità è bandita. L'orizzonte di riferimento sembra essere la “bassa" padana. Biciclette che percorrono strade bianche di campagna. Un inizio alla Simone Guiducci, per intenderci, molto gradevole e indubbiamente spiazzante per Myra Melford, anche se un poco oleografico nei ...

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Myra Melford's Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Read "The Whole Tree Gone" reviewed by Nic Jones


Pianist Myra Melford founded this ensemble in 2002, specifically as an outlet for her compositions. She's blessed indeed, because this line up realizes them so beautifully. Her work can be described as pervasively contemplative though never quiet, which in its way is every bit as distinctive as the late Andrew Hill's depth of compositional character.

Melford's not afraid to cover bases either. Her solo free exposition into “Moon Bird" is the work of a pianist secure in her ...


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