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Myra Melford &Tanya Kalmanovitch: Heart Mountain

Read "Heart Mountain" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Fate drew violist/violinist Tanya Kalmanovitch and pianist/harmonium player Myra Melford together at the Canadian 2003 Guelph Jazz Festival. Kalmanovitch could not play with her quartet, and therefore teamed up with Melford. Both women are improvisers who can shape their musical journeys into a compelling portrait from a common thread. Proof positive can be found on Heart ...

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Myra Melford & Tanya Kalmanovitch: Heart Mountain

Read "Heart Mountain" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Pianist Myra Melford and violinist/violist Tanya Kalmanovitch have created, in Heart Mountain, a work that demonstrates the highest degree of interaction between players who have the innate ability to create spontaneous music that lives and breathes. There is absolutely no reason why jazz, specifically improvised music, cannot and should not be listened to with ...

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Myra Melford: The Image of Your Body

Read "The Image of Your Body" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio


The harmonium is not a native Indian instrument. It was conceived in Europe, but adopted by India in the 19th century, quickly becoming a traditional element in the region's folk, devotional and popular music. Myra Melford studied the instrument in India under a Fulbright Scholarship and, as she writes in the liner notes of this new ...

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The Image Of Your Body

Label: Cryptogramophone
Released: 2006
Track listing: Equal Grace; Luck Shifts; Fear Slips Behind; To The Roof; Yellow Are Crowds Of Flowers, II; The Image OF Your Body; Be Bread; If You

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Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image Of Your Body

Read "The Image Of Your Body" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Se ci si ferma un istante a riflettere sugli sviluppi della sua musica, appare piuttosto evidente come Myra Melford stia negli anni combinando e ricombinando i diversi elementi della propria poetica, in un dialogo interno continuo e estremamente sottile che riflette bene il suo carattere di artista generosa, ma al tempo stesso schiva e profondamente riflessiva. ...

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Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image Of Your Body

Read "The Image Of Your Body" reviewed by Nic Jones


Myra Melford augments her to a quartet here with either trumpet or guitar, and the range of the group is augmented in turn by her use of harmonium and the use of electronics by both trumpeter Cuong Vu and bassist Stomu Takeishi. The resulting music is a mixed affair, marked by a certain anonymous quality that ...

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When The Two Worlds Touch

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Eight; Where the Two Worlds Touch (for Andrew Hill); Brainfire and Buglight; Where the Ocean Misquotes the Sky; Secrets to Tell You; Everything Today; Hello Dreamers (for Lester Bowie); No News at All

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Where the Two Worlds Touch

Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Eight; Where the Two Worlds Touch (for Andrew Hill); Brainfire and Buglight; Where the Ocean Misquotes the Sky; Secrets to Tell You; Everything Today; Hello Dreamers (for Lester Bowie); No News At All

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Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations

Read "Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner


Leave the familiar for a while. Let your senses and bodies stretch out Like a welcome season Onto the meadows and shores and hills. The above lines are from the poem All the Hemispheres , by the Persian mystic poet, Hafiz. Though Myra Melford made no mention ...

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Myra Melford/The Tent: Where the Two Worlds Touch

Read "Where the Two Worlds Touch" reviewed by John Kelman


At its best music should transcend any technical evaluation; it should just be. All too often people (read: critics) assess the skill involved in creating a specific work, forgetting about whether or not it succeeds on purely a gut level. Pianist Myra Melford's latest project, The Tent, manages to rise above such pedestrian considerations, instead demanding ...


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