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Chicago's pianist Myra Melford (1957), who moved to New York in 1984, debuted with the
solo-piano meditations One For Now (august 1986) but established herself
as a poignant composer in the vein of Henry Threadgill with a trio that recorded
Jump (june 1990),
Now and Now (august 1991)
and the live Alive In The House of Saints (february 1993).
Their playing revisited all the elements of jazz improvisation within a
structured context.
In order to pursue these erudite studies,
she formed The Same River Twice with saxophonist Chris Speed, trumpeter Dave Douglas, cellist Erik Friedlander and drummer Michael Sarin,
that recorded
The Same River Twice (january 1996) and
Above Blue (april 1998), albums whose music was frequently cryptic
and disorienting.
However, they all paled in comparison with the
25-minute combinatorial game of La Mezquita Suite, off
Even the Sounds Shine (march 1994), for a quintet with
trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Marty Ehrlich.
A blend of lyrical inspiration and musical mastery fueled the ever more sophisticated architectures of
Dance Beyond the Color (may 1999) and
The Tent (april 2003).
Under The Water (september 2007) documents five water-themed improvisations for solo piano by Myra Melford and Satoko Fujii.
The electro-acoustic band
Be Bread was formed in 2002 to
play music based on her harmonium studies in India.
The Image of Your Body
(december 2003) features
trumpeter Cuong Vu, guitarist Brandon Ross,
bassist Stomu Takeishi and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee.
Be Bread also recorded Melford's chamber suite The Whole Tree Gone (december 2008), mostly composed in 2004, with a line-up of
Cuong Vu on trumpet, Ben Goldberg on clarinets,
Brandon Ross on guitars, Stomu Takeishi on acoustic bass guitar, and
Matt Wilson on drums.
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