Myra Melford at Burlington Discover Jazz Festival

Created in 2002 by the fearless pianist and composer with more than 30 recordings in her catalog, Myra Melford Be Bread Sextet is an electro-acoustic ensemble designed to delve into Melford’s harmonium studies in India. Joined by an all-star cast of stellar musicians, Melford recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her native Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde approach she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training...

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Created in 2002 by the fearless pianist and composer with more than 30 recordings in her catalog, Myra Melford Be Bread Sextet is an electro-acoustic ensemble designed to delve into Melford’s harmonium studies in India. Joined by an all-star cast of stellar musicians, Melford recasts the blues and boogie-woogie of her native Chicago, folds in elements of the music of Eastern Europe and India, and blends them with the rangy, percussive avant-garde approach she cultivated in studies with Don Pullen and Henry Threadgill. This personal musical vocabulary is further enriched by a lush lyricism and organized by an architectural sense of composition that she derived from classical training. The group’s second and most recent release, The Whole Tree Gone (Firehouse 12), includes pieces composed on the melodica that use a wide range of timbres available through acoustic instruments as well as electronically manipulated sound. www.discoverjazz.com

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