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Myra Melford Quintet: The Same River, Twice

Saturday, November 4 • 2pm

Florence Gould Theatre, Legion of Honor
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  • $25 GA
    • "Myra Melford is at once a dancer, a romantic and a savage suckerpuncher at the bench...beating all hell out of the piano and making it beautiful." — Coda

    A member of the UC Berkeley Music Department and a Fulbright Scholar, the classically trained and adventurous pianist-composer Myra Melford “can be rhythmic, romantic, stoic, wry, and lusty but most of all daring - all in one tune” (The London Observer). "One can hear in the pianist's colorful compositions jazz influences such as Ornette Coleman, Henry Threadgill and Don Pullen," DownBeat said in a review of Melford’s 1999 album Above Blue. "But her themes are also informed by 'non-jazz' sources such as klezmer, tango and chamber music." Her current quintet lineup features Cuong Vu on trumpet, Stomu Takeishi on bass, clarinetist Ben Goldberg and the drumming of Alex Cline. Read Program Notes

    Personnel:
    • Myra Melford, piano, harmonium, composer
    • Ben Goldberg, clarinet
    • Cuong Vu, trumpet
    • Stomu Takeishi, bass
    • Alex Cline, drums