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Heart Mountain

Label: Perspicacity Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Cave and Basin; Three Sisters; Medicine Lake; Pika; Sulphur; Hoodoo; Babel; Kaligandhaki; Indefatigable; Into a Gunnysack and into the Kootenay River; The Kid on the Mountain; Athabasca; Annapurna; Daulaghiri; Wapama; Tueeulala; Anthracite; Heart Mountain; Kailash.

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Myra Melford &Tanya Kalmanovitch: Heart Mountain

Read "Heart Mountain" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
July 10, 2007

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

by Budd Kopman
June 18, 2007

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

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
April 4, 2007

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

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

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Myra Melford Be Bread: The Image Of Your Body

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

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 24, 2006

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

by Nic Jones
October 1, 2006

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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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

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When The Two Worlds Touch

By Myra Melford

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Myra Melford: Mystic Manifestations

by Franz A. Matzner
August 3, 2004

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 ...