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Myra Melford: The Image of Your Body
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 ...
The Image Of Your Body
By Myra Melford
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
Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image Of Your Body
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. ...
Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image Of Your Body
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 ...
Where the Two Worlds Touch
By Myra Melford
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
When The Two Worlds Touch
By Myra Melford
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
Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations
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 ...
Myra Melford/The Tent: Where the Two Worlds Touch
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 ...
Myra Melford/The Tent: When The Two Worlds Touch
by Jerry D'Souza
Poetry has its own essence. Myra Melford was inspired by the words of Jelaluddin Rumi, the founder of the Mevlevi order of dervishes who are, perhaps, more recognisable as the Whirling Dervishes. Rumi’s words have undoubtedly cast a spell, but the music here goes well beyond that. Melford has a clasp on Hindustani music that she ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
