April 2026, including Doug MacDonald, Albert Marquès & Rachel Therrien, Wes Montgomery, Novos Londrinos and Audrey Ochoa // Editor's pick: Audrey Ochoa ...
Jazz concerts will be here, there and nearly everywhere in San Diego this fall. The list of likely highlights includes performances at area venues that range from Escondido to Tijuana, La Jolla to ...
Listen to “Visions” with host Kaleigh Wilder every Monday from 8-10 p.m. ET on Detroit Public Radio 101.9 WDET. This week on Visions, my playlist is all over the board. Between 1965 Sonny Rollins to ...
They’re not as well known as Brad Mehldau or Jason Moran, but Myra Melford and Gonzalo Rubalcaba are two of the most impactful pianists working today. Neither of them show off with fast and flashy ...
Lux Quartet, co-led by pianist Myra Melford and drummer Allison Miller, is proud to present its eponymous debut: a glowing musical encounter with Dayna Stephens (saxophones) and Scott Colley (bass).
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 ...
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 ...
With the blockbuster Eras and Renaissance tours, you could argue that 2023 marked the return of the monoculture. But a close look at the Bay Area’s music scene also revealed creativity blossoming at ...
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 ...
‘Hear the Light Singing” (RogueArt, out Nov. 17), the new release from pianist-composer Myra Melford’s Fire and Water Quintet, reflects an arc of inspiration spanning nearly 30 years, as realized by ...
The Free jazz pianist and composer Myra Melford made the trip across the Bay Bridge to the SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab to bring her Fire and Water Quintet to an eagerly expectant audience. The quintet's ...
The pianist’s latest group fills its recent album “For the Love of Fire and Water” with idiosyncratic life. By Alan Scherstuhl Draft up a list of today’s most inventive and respected players in the ...