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Myra Melford Fire & Water Quintet
Hailed by The New Yorker as “a stalwart of the new-jazz movement,” the endlessly gifted pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator Myra Melford returns to Outpost with her dynamic all-star Fire and Water Quintet featuring Ingrid Laubrock on tenor and soprano saxophones, Mary Halvorson on electric guitar, Tomeka Reid on cello, and rising star, Lesley Mok, on drums. Each of these artists has an impressive catalog as a bandleader and collaborator, and Melford had worked with all of them previously, but never together. The result is a gathering of some of the most compelling improvisers working today. Their critically acclaimed debut, For the Love of Fire and Water, inspired by a set of drawings by Cy Twombly – whose art has been a touchstone for Melford for years – was released in April 2022 on the RogueArt label and served as the “first installment” of a multi-part project. In the last three years, the band has toured from Pori to San Sebastien to Austin to San Francisco and everywhere in between.
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