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January 5, 2025: The Multitudes of Myra Melford
Climbing up on the piano bench at age 3 in her Frank Lloyd Wright-built house in Evanston, Illinois, pianist, harmonium player, and composer Myra Melford began to improvise. Sixty-five years later, she's still at it. She's formed or joined so many ensembles, from duos, trios, quartets and larger, it's hard to keep track of them all. Today on her birthday, we'll hear as many as we can.
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| Trio M |
The Guest House
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The Guest House | Double Bass – Mark Dresser; Drums – Matt Wilson; Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded June 13 & 14, 2011 |
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| Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet |
Insertion Two
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Hear the Light Singing | Cello – Tomeka Reid; Drums, Percussion – Susie Ibarra; Guitar – Mary Halvorson; Piano, Melodica, All Compositions By – Myra Melford; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Ingrid Laubrock - - - Recorded ... on July 20st and 21st 2021 |
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0:08:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford Be Bread |
The Image Of Your Body
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The Image Of Your Body | Bass Guitar [Electric, Acoustic], Electronics – Stomu Takeishi > >Drums – Elliot Humberto Kavee > >Electric Guitar, Banjo, Voice – Brandon Ross > >Piano, Harmonium – Myra Melford > >Trumpet, Electronics – Cuong Vu - - Recorded at Systems Two, December 2 and 3, 2003, Brooklyn, New York |
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0:15:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford Trio |
Live Jump
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Alive In The House Of Saints | Myra Melford – piano • Lindsey Horner – double bass • Reggie Nicholson – drums • recorded live, 3rd of February 1993, at Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany |
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0:22:26 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| In with the old DJ! | HAPPY 2025, ALL (we can but hope) Myra's homepage: https://www.myramelford.com | 0:34:31 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Myra Melford & Han Bennink |
The Maple Leaf Rag
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Eleven Ghosts | Myra Melford – piano • Han Bennink – drums Recorded February 11–12, 1994 at Radio DRS, Zürich, Switzerland |
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0:45:21 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford |
Drawing in the Dark (A Prayer for Peace in the Balkans)
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The Same River, Twice | Myra Melford – piano • Dave Douglas – trumpet • Chris Speed – clarinet • Erik Friedlander – cello • Michael Sarin – drums • Recorded January 25–26, 1996 at Sorcerer Sound, NYC |
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0:48:18 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Henry Threadgill |
Over The River Club
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Song Out Of My Trees | Bass Guitar – Jerome Richardson; OR - Bass Guitar – Jerome Harris; Guitar – Ed Cherry; Guitar [Alto] – Brandon Ross; Guitar [Soprano] – James Emery; Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded at Sear Sound, New York City on August 17, 18, & 19, 1993 |
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0:56:51 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford + Ben Goldberg |
The Kitchen
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Dialogue | Clarinet – Ben Goldberg; Piano, Composed By – Myra Melford - - Recorded November 2014 at Firehouse 12, New Haven |
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1:06:16 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford, Tanya Kalmanovitch |
Kailash
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Heart Mountain | Piano, Harmonium, Composed By – Myra Melford; Viola, Violin, Composed By – Tanya Kalmanovitch - - Produced and recorded using the facilities of the Music & Sound Program at The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta ca. 2007 - -more info on Tanya K: http://www.tanyakalmanovitch.com |
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1:11:33 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford |
The Virgin of Guadalupe
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Snowy Egret | Bass Guitar – Stomu Takeishi; Cornet – Ron Miles; Drums – Tyshawn Sorey; Guitar – Liberty Ellman;: Piano, Composed By – Myra Melford —— Recorded December 2013 at Stadiumred, New York |
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1:16:41 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford's Crush |
In Memoriam
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Dance Beyond the Color | Bass Guitar [Electric And Acoustic Bass Guitar] – Stomu Takeishi; Drums, Percussion, Sampler – Kenny Wollesen; Piano, Harmonium, Composed By – Myra Melford; Cover Painting, "the Shaman Dance", 4'x3', Acrylic On Paper – Jai Keller - - Recorded at Sear Sound, NYC on May 12 & 13, 1999 |
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1:25:05 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford |
Park Mechanics
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Life Carries Me This Way | Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded January 14, 2013 at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT |
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1:31:32 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| DJ Badbatch | On DJ Peter and the Laughing Clock, today from 6-9pm, ET: The Laughing Clock Featuring the second installment of Cannonball Adderley’s “Big Man: The Legend of John Henry” starring Joe Williams | 1:39:10 (MP3 | Pop-up) | |||
| Myra Melford Extended Ensemble |
Evening Might Still
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Even the Sounds Shine | Myra Melford – piano • Dave Douglas – trumpet • Marty Ehrlich – bass clarinet • Lindsey Horner – double bass • Reggie Nicholson – drums • Recorded May 5 & 6, 1994 at Die Börse, Wuppertal, Germany |
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1:46:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Tiger Trio |
Tiger Trio #6
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Joëlle Léandre: Lifetime Rebel | Double Bass – Joëlle Léandre; Flute [Flutes] – Nicole Mitchell; Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded live by [...] on June 13th, 2023, at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, USA as part of Vision Festival 2023 |
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1:59:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford |
A Generation Comes and a Generation Goes
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Spark! | Alto Saxophone [Alto Sax], Clarinet – Marty Ehrlich Piano – Myra Melford Recorded & mixed at Maggie's Farm - released 2007 |
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2:06:50 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford's Fire And Water Quintet |
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For the Love of Fire and Water | Cello – Tomeka Reid; Drums, Percussion – Susie Ibarra; Guitar – Mary Halvorson; Piano All Composed By – Myra Melford; Soprano Saxophone – Ingrid Laubrock - - - Recorded ... on July 20st and 21st 2021 |
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2:12:52 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford's Be Bread |
Night
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The Whole Tree Gone | Myra Melford - piano; Cuong Vu - trumpet; Ben Goldberg - clarinet and contra-alto clarinet; Brandon Ross - guitar and soprano guitar; Stomu Takeishi - acoustic bass guitar; Matt Wilson – drums. -released 2010 |
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2:17:07 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford |
Ching Ching / For Love Of Fruit
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12 from 25 | Liberty Ellman, Myra Melford, Ron Miles, Stomu Takeishi, Tyshawn Sorey - -Recorded March 24-29, 2015 live at The Stone, NYC |
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2:25:42 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Butch Morris |
Food Chain Dialogue
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Dust To Dust | Bassoon – Janet Grice; Clarinet – Marty Ehrlich; Conductor, Written-By – Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris*; Drums – Andrew Cyrille; English Horn – Vickey Bodner; Guitar – Jean-Paul Bourelly; Harp – Zeena Parkins; Cover Illustration – Gail Schilke; Keyboards, Electronics, Producer – Wayne Horvitz; Oboe – John Purcell; Piano – Myra Melford; Trombone, Electronics – J.A. Deane; Vibraphone – Brian Carrott; Violin – Jason Hwang - - Recorded at Skyline Studios, New York City, November 18, 19, and 20, 1990 |
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2:33:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| DJ AdMyra | 2:40:39 (MP3 | Pop-up) | ||||
| Lux Quartet |
Deeply Us
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Tomorrowland | Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dayna Stephens; Double Bass [Upright Bass] – Scott Colley; Drums – Allison Miller; Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded on February 2nd and 3rd, 2023 by [...] at Sear Sound in NYC |
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2:51:17 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford Trio |
Some Kind Of Blues
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Jump | Bass – Lindsey Horner; Drums – Reggie Nicholson; Producer, Piano – Myra Melford - - Recorded on June 1990 at The Magic Shop, NYC |
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2:56:20 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Equal Interest |
Apricots from Eden (Sourmaloui Jerk)
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Equal Interest | Joseph Jarman – Turkish hand drum, Vietnamese oboe, wind chimes • Leroy Jenkins – violin, viola - melodica(?) • Myra Melford – harmonium Recorded August 2 & 3, 1999 at Sear Sound, New York City |
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3:04:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Tiger Trio |
Compassion
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Map of Liberation | Double Bass, Composed By – Joëlle Léandre; Alto Flute, Composed By – Nicole Mitchell; Piano, Composed By – Myra Melford - - Recorded live ... on November 12th 2018 at 19 rue Paul Fort, Paris, France and November 13th 2018 at Fossé-des-Treize, Festival Jazzdor, Strasbourg, France |
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3:11:19 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford & The Tent |
No News at All
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Where the Two Worlds Touch | Electric] Bass Guitar – Stomu Takeishi; Clarinet – Chris Speed; Drums – Kenny Wollesen; Harmonium, Composed By, – Myra Melford; Photography - Cover and back cover] Trumpet – Cuong Vu - - Recorded at Loho Studios, April 16 & 17, 2003, NYC |
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3:17:54 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford's Snowy Egret |
Chorale
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The Other Side of Air | Composed By – Myra Melford; Bass Guitar – Stomu Takeishi; Composed By – Myra Melford; Cornet – Ron Miles; Drums – Tyshawn Sorey; Guitar – Liberty Ellman; Piano – Myra Melford; Recorded on October 14 & 15, 2017 |
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3:23:53 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Allison Miller |
Cheyenne
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Boom Tic Boom | Bass – Todd Sickafoose; Drums – Allison Miller; Piano – Myra Melford; Violin – Jenny Scheinman - - released 2010 |
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3:27:48 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| Myra Melford |
The Strawberry (arr. Ted Nash)
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Handful of Keys | Arranged By – Ted Nash; Featuring, Trumpet, Soloist – Wynton Marsalis; Written-By, Featuring, Piano, Soloist – Myra Melford - - Alto Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Sherman Irby Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Ted Nash Bass – Carlos Henriquez Drums – Ali Jackson Tenor Saxophone, Clarinet – Walter Blanding Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet – Victor Goines Trombone – Chris Crenshaw, Elliot Mason, Vincent Gardner Trumpet – Greg Gisbert, Kenny Rampton, Marcus Printup - - - Recorded live on August 24, September 22 & 23, 2016 at Frederick Rose Hall |
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3:35:04 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
| DJ Out There Gone | (Listen: MP3 | Pop-up) | On DJ Peter and the Laughing Clock, today from 6-9pm, ET: The Laughing Clock Featuring the second installment of Cannonball Adderley’s “Big Man: The Legend of John Henry” starring Joe Williams | 3:43:59 (MP3 | Pop-up) |
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' Myra Melford (born January 5, 1957) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as an "explosive player, a virtuoso who shocks and soothes, and who can make the piano stand up and do things it doesn't seem to have been designed for." '...
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Take the A train northbound from Fulton St. Stand in the second to last car, wearing a gray fedora with a rusty nail in the brim, reading yesterday's Times upside down, and pushing a folding shopping cart containing a burlap sack filled with copper wire stripped from a construction site. At 207th St., change to the same car on the downtown track. At 42nd St, transfer to a Queens-bound E. Exit at 5th and 53rd, repair to the Stork Club, and deliver the new blue barrel of 2025 Glen Passaic that has been exchanged for the copper wire in the sack. Stir Glen Passaic, vermouth, and bitters together over ice, strain into a chilled coupe, and garnish with a Maraschino cherry.
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Alive In The House Of Saints is one of my go-to recordings when I'm listening to new sound gear. It's a marvelous recording, both musically and sonically.
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