Tag Archives: Myra Melford / Han Benn – Eleven Ghosts

Within the niche-oriented world of major-league jazz, it’s almost unfashionable to become so multi-faceted a new player as Han Bennink. Bennink is among the unfortunately rare music artists whose skills and interests period the music’s whole range, from Dixieland to free of charge. His straight-ahead playing is completely convincing — …

An exploratory, virtuosic, rhythmic, and lyrical composer and improviser, pianist Myra Melford emerged in the first ’90s among the most highly acclaimed jazz pianists of your day, and she proved worth the accolades as her diverse body of function — with an frequently strong spiritual concentrate — continued in to …