Marilyn Crispell, a trailblazer of improvised music since the 1970s, opens this extraordinary concert with live-wire solo piano before being joined by Alpert Award-winning keyboardist and creative musicmaker extraordinaire Myra Melford for a set of piano duos. Crispell is an alumna of the Anthony Braxton Quartet, the Reggie Workman Ensemble, and several other distinguished groups. Melford is one of the most gifted and visionary pianist-composers to emerge from the jazz scene in recent years—an artist of remarkable breadth and thoughtful, expressive sensibility. The show concludes with the Los Angeles debut of Melford’s newest band, Snowy Egret, featuring trumpeter Kirk Knuffke, guitarist Liberty Ellman, bassist Stomu Takeishi, drummer Tyshawn Sorey and dancer Oguri.