Myra Melford is the best-kept secret in jazz. - Alex Cline
In the March 2008 issue of Downbeat (that's "Downbeast" without the "s"), Yoshi Kato interviews pianist Myra Melford, who just released Trio M's Big Picture on Cryptogramophone last year. In the current All About Jazz, Phil DePietro profiles pianist Alan Pasqua, whose Crypto drop The Antisocial Club made many "Best of 2007" lists.
Also in the new AAJ (unreadable-tiny-font print version), Ollie Bivins profiles "The Private Charlie Haden" -- although we're hard pressed to find an online version.
Myra will be playing three shows this coming weekend for Flowers of the Season, a two-week series of dance and music improvisations at Venice's Electric Lodge -- on Sunday she'll be joined by drummer Alex Cline, who has his own massive show on Saturday night celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Open Gate Theatre (see Feb. 8 post). Check out Victoria Looseleaf's (great name) review of last week's "Flowers" shows in the L.A. Times. And speaking of the Times, Don Heckman wrote a little ditty about the reunion of the classic fusion combo Return To Forever. 'Nuff said 'bout dat.
O yes, uno mas cosa: Check out my preview of the great lost jazz film Passing Through (playing in LA next week) in today's L.A. Weekly.
CRYPTOGRAMOPHONE: HEROIN WITHOUT THE NEEDLE
