SNOWY EGRET
This quintet, featuring Ron Miles (trumpet), Liberty Ellman
(guitar), Stomu Takeishi (acoustic bass guitar) and Ted Poor (drums), performs all original compositions, primarily her collection of pieces inspired by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy, which explores the history of the Americas.
Snowy Egret is the evolution of one of Ms. Melford's earlier projects, Happy Whistlings, which she created in 2008 to perform a book of original music inspired by Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire Trilogy. In this latest incarnation, with all new personnel, the original pieces are further developed, rearranged and augmented with more recent compositions.
"Myra Melford lately seems to have entered a phase where she can do no wrong," writes esteemed jazz journalist Francis Davis in his introduction to this year's Rhapsody Jazz Critics' Poll. Recent media coverage has called her "one of the most exciting musicians working in any genre" (Ehren Gresehover, At Length), "an insightful and far-reaching pianist-composer" (Nate Chinen, New York Times) and "a visionary bandleader" (Andrew Gilbert, Berkeleyside), noting her "ever-growing track record of arresting music" (Mike Shanley, JazzTimes). |
Line Up:
Myra Melford, piano
Ron Miles, trumpet
Liberty Ellman, guitar
Stomu Takeishi, acoustic bass
Ted Poor, drums
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