Earshot Jazz Festival Presents: Myra Melford / Ches Smith / Michael Formanek: Splash

Lineup

• Myra Melford

  Myra Melford (born January 5, 1957) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as an "explosive player, a virtuoso who shocks and soothes, and who can make the piano stand up and do things it doesn't seem to have been designed for."
• Ches Smith

  Ches Smith is an American musician, whose primary instruments are drums and percussion. He recorded and performed an album of his own solo percussion pieces entitled Congs for Brums (2006). In 2010 he released Noise to Men.

• Michael Formanek

  Michael Formanek (born May 7, 1958) is an American jazz bassist born in San Francisco, California, United States, and associated with the jazz scene in New York.

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