Myra Melford’s Fire and Water
Name:
Myra Melford’s Fire and Water
Date:
November 1, 2024
Time:
8:00 PM - 11:45 PM MDT
Website:
TACAW
Event Description:
Hailed by The New Yorker as “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement,” the endlessly gifted pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Myra Melford comes to TACAW with her dynamic all-star Fire and Water Quintet. The quintet brings together Melford (composer/piano), Ingrid Laubrock (tenor and soprano saxophones), Mary Halvorson (electric guitar) and Tomeka Reid (cello), and rising star Lesley Mok (drums). Their critically acclaimed debut, inspired by a set of drawings by the visual artist Cy Twombly, For the Love of Fire and Water was released in April 2022 on the RogueArt label. A second album, Hear the Light Singing, adding “insertions” to the original suite, written with each player’s unique musical personality in mind, was released in October 2023 to immense critical acclaim. In the last three years, the band has toured from Pori to San Sebastien to Austin to San Francisco and everywhere in between.
