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Alive in the House of Saints, Part 1

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Composer
MELFORD, MYRA
Artist
MYRA MELFORD TRIO
Format
CD
Label
Hat Hut Records
Released
Jun 09, 2017
Catalog #
HATOLOGY707
UPC
752156070726

About

Listening, eight years after it was created, to this primary chapter in the recorded legacy of Myra Melford's first trio evokes a rush of feelings. There are warm memories of in-person encounters with Melford, Lindsey Horner and Reggie Nicholson; and satisfaction regarding how the ideas Melford articulated here as both pianist and composer have metamorphosed into the triumphs of her subsequent music. What is absent is the uncertainty one often feels when contemplating the recent past, that feeling of needing more time to take the full measure of a musical statement. Melford has made it easy for us, through the clarity of both these now-historic performances and her subsequent efforts, to hear the present works as both glorious ends in themselves and the foundations of her ongoing creations. Melford formed the trio in 1990, and immediately began the touring and recording that made her and it among the most positive signs of musical health in the early 1990s. What set the trio immediately apart was its ability to merge a strong blues feeling with notions of rhythmic and structural complexity associated with the exploratory end of the jazz-trio spectrum. The music conveyed a strength and unguarded emotionalism that burst forth in dynamic arcs, with a sense of shape and completeness that made the trio’s collective creations anything but random. Even as the band broke new ground, it was clearly a product of the jazz tradition. However odd the meter or angular the thematic material, the music always had a propulsion that all sides of current debates on jazz aesthetics could identify and celebrate as swing.

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 Evening Might Still 11:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    Evening Might Still
    Duration
    11:16
    Composer
    Myra Melford
    Ensemble
    Myra Melford Trio
  2. 2 Now and Now 1 06:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    Now and Now 1
    Duration
    06:49
    Composer
    Myra Melford
    Ensemble
    Myra Melford Trio
  3. 3 Between Now and Then 15:54
    Track
    3
    Title
    Between Now and Then
    Duration
    15:54
    Composer
    Myra Melford
    Ensemble
    Myra Melford Trio
  4. 4 Parts I and II Frank Lloyd Wright Goes West to Rest 18:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    Parts I and II Frank Lloyd Wright Goes West to Rest
    Duration
    18:49
    Composer
    Myra Melford
    Ensemble
    Myra Melford Trio