Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet - Sure Grand Out

For this third album of Fire and Water Quintet, Myra Melford set out to sustain continuity and momentum, while also stimulating creative growth with new inspirations—including the idea of developing a cellular compositional mode flexible enough to evolve with input from the four other musicians, Ingrid Lauborck, Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid and Lesley Mok, each a formidable composer and bandleader in her own right.