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New Artist: Myra Flynn & Spark!

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2008-03-06 11:48:00 by Andrew in Carry You Away
...Myra Flynn. Myra's a fellow Norwich University Graduate, and who's been playing gigs locally When it comes to soul music, I'm somewhat out of the loop - there's not a whole lot of singers that really interest me with this genre, but I have to say that Myra's really left an impression She has an incredible voice - she reminds me a lot of...
 
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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
 
...Myra Melford, piano; Matana Roberts, saxophone; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Harris Eisenstadt, percussion In the next millennium, jazz will be based on personal vocabularies like Melfords, drawing on, but also radically adapting, blues, swing, and a breadth of other traditional qualities. It will still be jazz if its players interact as they do...
 
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A conversation with Myra Melford

2008-01-24 12:36:04 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...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 ) she worked with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt Wilson as Trio M Saturday, Jan. 26, the Redwood Jazz Alliance...
 
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Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama (US 1969) + Rare Surprise Folder

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2008-01-12 16:13:29 by ChrisGoesRock in ChrisGoesRock
...Myra Friedman (after Joplin's death) that the singer had lived in his house during the June 1969 recording sessions at his insistence so he could keep her away from drugs and her drug-using friends (who included Peggy Caserta By the time Joplin reached Woodstock two months later, her drug use had resumed. Decades later, Caserta and Myra...
 
Tags: blues, joplin, kozmic blues sessions, sessions, janis joplin, kozmic blues band, studio album, studio, album
 
 
 
 
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Sax piano duo

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2007-12-07 15:27:00 by stef in Free Jazz
...Myra 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...
 
Tags: steve lacy, mal waldron, marilyn crispell, aki takase, evan parker, live-lee, live, anthony braxton, archie shepp
 
 
 
 
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Quartet M at the Athenaeum Winter 2008

2008-01-08 12:43:48 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Myra 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...
 
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This Week at Ars Nova Workshop

2008-01-29 12:45:08 by Mike in Avant Music News
 
...Myra 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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too much fun

2008-02-16 16:42:29 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Myra 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...
 
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Out To Lunch in the zone

2008-03-23 16:01:18 by Jazz beyond Jazz in Jazz Beyond Jazz
 
...Myra 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...
 
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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
...Myra 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...