Myra Melford - Splash (2025)

Myra Melford
Splash
2025 - Intakt Records: Intakt CD 436
https://www.intaktrec.ch/products/436-myra-melford-splash-with-michael-formanek-and-ches-smith-myra-melford-splash
https://www.myramelford.com/projects/project/display/id/34/Splash-Trio
https://www.cytwombly.org/in-perspective/unveiled-inside-the-creative-process-after-cy-twombly-myra-melfords-splash-trio
https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/myra-melford-splash

* Myra Melford : piano
* Michael Formanek: bass
* Ches Smith : drums, vibraphone

https://www.myramelford.com/
http://www.michaelformanek.com/
https://www.chessmith.com/

Recorded by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios Winterthur,
Zürich, Switzerland, on July 29 and 30, 2024.

Cover art, “Lepanto, 2001 (Part III)”,
by Cy Twombly. © Cy Twombly Foundation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Twombly

Reviews
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By Michael J. West
https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/myra-melford-splash

Myra Melford Splash is a damned exciting piano trio record. You can know that
without immersing yourself in the paintings of Cy Twombly, whose work inspires
the music — although the piece on the album cover (part of Twombly’s famed
Lepanto cycle) certainly suggests the bright contrast, odd shapes and ordered
abstraction within. [...]

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By Don Phipps
https://www.freejazzblog.org/2025/08/myra-melford-splash-intakt-2025.html

By Filipe Freitas
https://jazztrail.net/blog/myra-melford-splash-album-review

By Ken Waxman
https://www.jazzword.com/reviews/myra-melford-2/

Dai Mario Grella (it)
https://offtopicmagazine.net/2025/03/28/myra-melford-splash/

Par Luc Bouquet (fr)
https://www.jazzin.fr/myra-melford-splash/

Par Xavier Prévost (fr)
https://lesdnj.over-blog.com/2025/04/myra-melford-splash.html