Product Details

Myra Melford
"The Image of Your Body"

Cryptogramophone- CG131( 2006)
file under: Post Bop, Downtown New York, World Jazz

Myra Melford - piano, harmonium
Brandon Ross - electric guitar, banjo, voice
Cuong Vu - trumpet, electronics
Stomu Takeishi - electric and acoustic bass guitar, electronics
Elliot Humberto Kavee - drums

A veteran of the Downtown New York new music scene, pianist Myra Melford is one of the elite women instrumentalists in jazz today. Her new CD features Cuong Vu - trumpet player in Pat Metheny's group - with guitarist Brandon Ross, bassist Stomu Takeishi, and drummer Elliot Humberto Kavee. The Image of Your Body is Melford's 10th release as a leader, and first on Cryptogramophone. This ensemble, known as Be Bread, is currently on tour in the US.

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1CD- $15.00

Track Listing
(click linked titles for mp3)

1. Equal Grace [8:29]
2. Luck Shifts [9:18]
3. Fear Slips Behind [5:09]
4. To the Roof [11:37]
5. Yellow are Crowds of Flowers, II [5:55]
6. The Image of Your Body [7:11]
7. Be Bread [4:46]
8. If You've Not Been Fed [3:27]
9. Your Face Arrives in the Redbud Trees [9:27]
10. Made It Out [0:46]