Melba Liston, Mary Lou Williams will be remembered in 2 very different shows by Dee Spencer and Melba’s Kitchen.
In the early 1980s, pianist Dee Spencer’s astonishing and unanticipated encounter with Melba Liston introduced her to a jazz wonderland.
Spencer, a longtime music professor at San Francisco State, went on to a distinguished career as a pianist and educator, but she treasures that formative summer living with Liston and has worked to raise awareness of the jazz icon’s extensive contributions ever since. Spencer also contributed an arrangement of Liston’s tune “You Don’t Say” to the book of Melba’s Kitchen, the all-women East Bay band devoted to music by her and the great pianist, arranger and composer Mary Lou Williams . Dear friends and occasional colleagues, Liston and Williams were each awarded the nation’s highest jazz honor, the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship.
Tapping into the Bay Area deep pool of talent, the band has commissioned arrangements from artists like Spencer and pianist Tammy Hall, who expanded on a version of “Rosa Mae” drawn from an appearance by Mary Lou Williams on Marian McPartland’s public radio show “Piano Jazz.” With veteran players such as Georgianna Krieger on alto and soprano sax, Marina Garza on trumpet, and Renaye Brown on percussion, the group is particularly interested in connecting with young women, like guitarist Arnetta Olden, who spent several years studying and serving as a mentor at the Oakland Public Conservatory.
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