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Interpretations presents the Myra Melford Quartet & Henry Threadgills Zooid + Talujon Percussion Quartet

2008-08-25 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Melford collaborates with up-and-coming Brooklyn improvisers for a collage of improvisation and new compositions. This new work is inspired by the writings of Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, specifically the Memory of Fire trilogy, his vastly encompassing interpretation of the history of the Americas Myra Melford, piano; Matana Roberts,...
 
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A conversation with Myra Melford

2008-01-24 12:36:04 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
Melford is interviewed in anticipation of a Northern California show You could say 2007 was a good year for jazz pianist Myra Melford, who released two different albums that garnered acclaim and landed on jazz critics top 10 lists. Spark!, for the Palmetto label, paired her with reed player Marty Ehrlich. On Big Picture (for Cryptogramophone )...
 
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Out To Lunch in the zone

2008-03-23 16:01:18 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Melford (subject of recent Jazz Beyond Jazz posts, with her band Be Bread band and Trio M ), bassist Brad Jones (Jazz Passenger who's worked with Ornette Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Byron, et al) and drummer George Schuller All agreed to solo from their own inspirations rather than imitate the soloistic statements of Dolphy's original...
 
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Live in New York, it's jazz beyond jazz

2008-10-14 17:20:36 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Melford 's new quartet at Roulette, Richard Bona and Lionel Loueke in the Allen Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center, James " Blood" Ulmer with Vernon Reid's neo-blues band at the Jazz Standard and an evening celebrating the AACM chronicle and music of George E. Lewis at the Kitchen -- while different as can be, barely hint at therange of what's...
 
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Quartet M at the Athenaeum Winter 2008

2008-01-08 12:43:48 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Melford, Mark Dresser, and Matt Wilson January 25 Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist (saxophones, clarinets, flutes) and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz Mark Dresser is an American virtuoso double bass player and composer. For ten years he performed with the Anthony Braxton Quartet, as well...
 
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too much fun

2008-02-16 16:42:29 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Melford's Be Bread, the Bad Plus and the overall Portland Jazz Festival Complete disclosure -- I am a guest and advisor to the Portland Jazz Festival, also here to promote my book (at the incredible bookstore Powell's, and also the local Borders tomorrow), so I have enormous self-interest in the Portland Jazz Festival, produced for only four...
 
Tags: pdx jazz, jazz, portland jazz festival, festival, melford, myra melford, music, music rises, journalists james hale
 
 
 
 
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Sax piano duo

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2007-12-07 15:27:00 by stef in Free Jazz
...Melford - Yet Can Spring Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford - Spark Rudresh Mahanthappa & Vijay Iyer - Raw Materials Joe McPhee & John Snyder - Pieces Of Light (synth Ned Rothenberg & Slava Ganelin - Falling Into Place Nicolas Simion & Mal Waldron - The Big Rochade David Liebman & Marc Copland - Bookends Mark Copland & Greg Osby - Round And Round...
 
Tags: steve lacy, mal waldron, marilyn crispell, aki takase, evan parker, live-lee, live, anthony braxton, archie shepp
 
 
 
 
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2007 favorites/gift ideas

2007-12-13 14:04:54 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Melford, Matt Wilson) -- Big Picture (Cryptogrammaphone) - Exciting, upbeat, lyrical, balanced, original piano-bass-drums, with heart. Hear also Melford's duets with saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, Spark! . Ned Rothenberg - Inner Diaspora (Tzadik) - A gifted and disciplined reedsplayer - alto sax, bass clarinet, Japanese shakuhachi - accepts...
 
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This Week at Ars Nova Workshop

2008-01-29 12:45:08 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Melford, piano; Mark Dresser, double-bass; and Matt Wilson, drums AKIYAMA / VAN WISSEN with Tetuzi Akiyama, nylon string resonator guitar; and Jozef van Wissem ten-course Renaissance lute Philadelphia Art Alliance, 251 S. 18th Street 15 General Admission Ars Nova Workshop is pleased to present this very unique double bill featuring the...
 
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Monterey Jazz announces lineup for 51st festival

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2008-04-03 07:27:03 by Jim in The Concert Blog
...Melford and Mark Dresser) in what will be an improvisers dream. The West Lawn will chime with the Baltic Sounds of the Brass Menazeri SPECIAL EVENTS AND FAMILY DAY Sunday September 21 is also Family Day, sponsored by Macys, returning for the third year. Family Day features activities and fun for fans and families of all ages, including a...
 
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