Original Compositions and Improvisations for Solo Piano WITH MYRA MELFORD
When:
Saturday, Apr 28, 2018 12:00 A -
12:00 A
Saturday, Apr 28, 2018 12:00 A -
12:00 A
Where:
Follen Church Society
755 Massachusetts Ave
Lexington, MA 02420
Admission:
$10
Categories:
Music
Event website:
www.lexingtoncommunityed.org
Saturday, April 28, 2018 • 7:30-9:00 pm
Follen Church Society, 755 Massachusetts Ave,
Lexington • $10 • SMYR
Myra Melford emerged in the early ‘90s as one of the most highly acclaimed young jazz pianists and composers of the day. Her career has been defined by a restless curiosity and openness to collaborative creativity that is reflected in her highly personal, idiosyncratic style, which incorporates such wide-ranging influences as Chicago blues, Zen Buddhism and the “organic philosophy” of Frank Lloyd Wright. She has recorded prolifically, and her previous bands such as The Same River, Twice and Be Bread are featured on several recordings, along with the collective Trio M with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt Wilson, and her duets with woodwind virtuoso Marty Ehrlich and Dutch drum legend Han Bennink. Other recent releases, are her first piano solo album, Life Carries Me This Way, inspired by the drawings of her friend, the late Don Reich, and the duet recording Dialogue with clarinetist Ben Goldberg, along two new trios: MZM with Miya Masaoka and Zeena Parkins, and Tiger Trio with Nicole Mitchell and Joelle Leandre. Melford was the recipient of the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts for Music in 2012, a Guggenheim Fellowship, for Language of Dreams, and a Doris Duke Performing Artists Award in 2013. A professor of composition and improvisational practices at U.C. Berkeley since 2004, she was recently an artist-in-residence at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
