Tag Archives: Myra Melford’s Crush

Percussionist Kenny Wolleson performed about more than 30 recordings through the 1990s and, because the 10 years progressed, gained increasing renown like a musician of amazing flexibility, skill, and ingenuity. He offers documented and toured with all sorts of music artists, from Tom Waits (Wolleson performs on Waits’ 1993 cooperation …

Stomu Takeishi has played electric powered fret-less bass in a number of jazz settings through the entire ’90s and 2000s. An associate of Myra Melford’s Crush Trio (with drummer Kenny Wollesen), and Erik Friedlander’s Topaz (with sibling Satoshi Takeishi on percussion), Stomu Takeishi in addition has performed in trumpeter Cuong …

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 …