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Equal Interest is an album by Equal Interest, a collaborative project by saxophonist Joseph Jarman, pianist Myra Melford and violinist Leroy Jenkins, which was recorded in 1999 and released on the OmniTone label.
Equal Interest, to which all three members contributed compositions, enabled Melford to continue delving into her idea of chamber improvisation, in the company of musicians she considered mentors and heroes.
With Equal Interest, Melford performed on harmonium as well as piano. By the close of the decade, Melford had become one of the downtown jazz scene's most celebrated performers and composers, with the Seattle Times describing her in 1999 as an "explosive pianist who alternately caresses and pounds the keyboard and weaves brilliant ...
20 gen 2007 · Comprised of two veterans of Chicago's venerable AACM (saxophonist Joseph Jarman and violinist Leroy Jenkins) and "downtown" NY pianist Myra Melford, Equal Interest explodes with sensual, exotic, even mystical sounds, bridging the past, present and future.
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Comprised of two veterans of Chicago's venerable AACM (saxophonist Joseph Jarman and violinist Leroy Jenkins) and "downtown" NY pianist Myra Melford, Equal Interest explodes with sensual, exotic, even mystical sounds, bridging the past, present and future.
Equal Interestwas a collaborative trio featuring pianist Myra Melford and the AACM's Joseph Jarman and Leroy Jenkins. Drawing not only on their respective pasts in free and avant-garde jazz, but also…
Myra Melford doesn’t need a cast of collaborators to create spellbinding music. Alone at the piano she’s an orchestra, her left hand a thumping bass and rumbling percussion section, her chords gleaming brass, her mesmeric single lines wending to unexpected destinations.
