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."
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Stomu Takeishi
Japanese musician
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Ben Goldberg
American clarinet player and composer
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David Virelles
pianist
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Marty Ehrlich
American musician
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Erik Friedlander
American musician
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Nicole Mitchell
American jazz flutist
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Alex Cline
American musician
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Miya Masaoka
American composer
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Tyshawn Sorey
American composer and multi-instrumentalist
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Liberty Ellman
American musician
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Vijay Iyer
American jazz musician
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Emily Bear
American child composer and pianist
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Marilyn Crispell
American pianist
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Michael Sarin
American musician
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Dave Douglas
American jazz trumpeter
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Jeff Gauthier
American musician
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Brad Mehldau
American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger
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Jane Ira Bloom
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Matt Wilson
American jazz drummer
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Paul Bley
Canadian free jazz, post-bop pianist and keyboardist
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Michael Formanek
American jazz bassist
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Alan Pasqua
American pianist
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Zeena Parkins
American musician
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Carla Bley
American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader
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Irène Schweizer
Swiss musician
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Hank Jones
American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1918-2010)
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Craig Taborn
American musician
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Kenny Werner
American jazz pianist, composer, and author
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Han Bennink
Dutch musician
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John Hicks
American jazz pianist and composer
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Maria Baptist
German woman pianist and composer
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Julia Feldman
Israeli musician
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Mark Dresser
American musician
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Hiromi Uehara
Japanese-born jazz composer and pianist (1979-)
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Fred Hersch
American musician
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Lee Shaw
American musician and pianist
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Marian McPartland
British pianist, composer, writer and radio host
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Sylvie Courvoisier
Swiss musician
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Laila Biali
Canadian musician
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Ahmad Jamal
American jazz pianist
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Sonny Rollins
American jazz saxophonist and composer
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Bill Cunliffe
American musician
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Tom Varner
American musician
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Rachel Z
American jazz pianist
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Allison Miller
American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader
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Alexander von Schlippenbach
German jazz pianist and composer
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Keith Jarrett
American jazz and classical music pianist and composer
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Tommy Flanagan
American jazz pianist
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Yelena Eckemoff
Pianist and composer
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Ken Vandermark
American jazz composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist
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Joseph Jarman
American jazz musician
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Cuong Vu
Vietnamese-American jazz musician and professor
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Oscar Peterson
Canadian jazz pianist, band leader, composer
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Leroy Jenkins
composer and Avant-garde Jazz violinist and violist
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Joanne Brackeen
American musician and jazz educator
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Denny Zeitlin
American pianist
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Chick Corea
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
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Bill Evans
American jazz pianist
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Tord Gustavsen
Norwegian musician
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Taylor Ho Bynum
American musician
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Pete Jolly
American musician
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Gary Husband
British musician