Myra Melford

Quick Facts

Full Name	Myra Melford
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Jan 5, 1957(1957-01-05)
Age	67
Birthplace	Evanston
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Capricorn

Myra Melford Biography

Myra Melford is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on January 5, 1957 in Evanston, Illinois, United States. She is a well-known jazz composer and artist who has recorded over 20 albums. She also started playing the harmonium later in her career.

Both she and She and Junior Mance were both native Chicagoans who became beloved jazz pianists. are native Chicagoans who were beloved jazz pianists.

After arriving in New York, Melford performed in the bands of Threadgill, Leroy Jenkins, and Butch Morris, among others. In the late 1980s she played and recorded with flutist Marion Brandis, and formed a trio with bassist Lindsey Horner and drummer Reggie Nicholson. Her career accelerated in the early 1990s, as she participated in the first Knitting Factory tour of Europe, and recorded three albums with Horner and Nicholson: Jump (1990), Now & Now (1991), and Alive in the House of Saints, a live album, in 1993.

Melford enrolled at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she intended to study environmental science. Although she was not then listening to jazz, and had not grown up listening to it, she knew that it involved improvisation, and when she saw an advertisement for jazz piano lessons in a local restaurant, she began studying again. Shortly thereafter, she switched her major to music, and in 1980 attended Cornish College of the Arts and studied with Art Lande and Gary Peacock.

Her work combined Chicago blues sounds with Eastern sounds, avant-garde influences and Eastern sounds.

Myra Melford Net Worth

Myra Melford is one of the richest Pianist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Myra Melford 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In the mid-eighties, she began performing in New York City. She became a regular performer, working with fellow artists like She started performing in New York City in the mid-eighties where she became a mainstay, collaborating with fellow artists like Dave Douglas, Cuong Vu, Marty Ehrlich, and Chris Speed. and Cuong Viu, Marty Ehrlich, Chris Speed, and Chris Speed.

She was part of a trio called Equal Interest that included Joseph Jarman, Art Ensemble of Chicago’s violinist She joined a leaderless trio with the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Joseph Jarman and AACM violinist Leroy Jenkins called Equal Interest. and AACM violinist She joined a leaderless trio with the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s Joseph Jarman and AACM violinist Leroy Jenkins called Equal Interest. .

At Berkeley, Melford has developed and taught a series of courses in contemporary jazz and improvisation-based music for performers and composers in addition to lecturing on innovations in jazz since the 1960s and other topics in contemporary improvised music.

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After returning to the United States, Melford lived at an upstate New York ashram. She subsequently formed an ensemble expressly to play music based on her studies in India, Myra Melford’s Be Bread. Although it remained unreleased until 2006, Be Bread’s debut album, The Image of Your Body (whose title was derived from a Rumi poem), was recorded in 2003, as was Where the Two Worlds Touch by Myra Melford’s The Tent, released by Arabesque.

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Myra Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Myra Melford celebrates birthday on January 5 of every year.

Melford released her first solo album in October 2013. Titled Life Carries Me This Way, the album is a collection of work inspired by the paintings of the late visual artist Don Reich. That same year, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow and received both the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation’s Performing Artist Award and a Doris Duke Residency to Build Demand for the Arts for her efforts to re-imagine the jazz program at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; in November, Snowy Egret performed the music for Melford’s multimedia project Language of Dreams, at the center.