Myra Melford has kept a relatively low profile since moving from New York City to the Bay Area two years ago, but there's only so long that a force of nature can stay under wraps. Lured to California ...

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 ...

If we are to trot out the “supergroup” trope — more marketing schlock than anything — may all supergroups be like Fire and Water. In 2019, pianist Myra Melford, who was raised in Evanston and studied ...

"From her first album in 1991, it was clear that this pianist and composer would stay around," the New York Times said of Myra Melford. Melford has not only stuck around, but she has flourished. She ...

There's a schism in the jazz world. It's an unfortunate divide that lumps musicians and listeners alike into categories, and to a large extent controls the way the audience receives the music. Pianist ...

Jazz Night in America profiles multi-dimensional pianist and composer Myra Melford, who takes us on a musical journey across the spectrum, from... Myra Melford's Myriad Sounds What does a line from a ...

Hailed by The New Yorker as “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement” and by Disaster Amnesiac as “one of the great post-Taylor players,” pianist and composer Myra Melford (Guggenheim Fellow, Alpert Award ...

Fire and Water, L to R: guitarist Mary Halvorson, percussionist Lesley Mok, pianist Myra Melford, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, and cellist Tomeka Reid Credit: Don Dixon Myra Melford’s Fire and Water ...

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What does a line from a James Joyce novel sound like on the piano? Or a scribble from the visual artist Cy Twombly? Can you translate the organic architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright into music? For ...