Firehouse 12 Records: FH12-04-01-012 
http://firehouse12.com/firehouse12_records_release.asp?id=79354

* Myra Melford: piano
* Guong Vu: trumpet
* Ben Goldberg: clarinet and contra-alto clarinet
* Brandon Ross: guitar and soprano guitar
* Stomu Takeishi: acoustic bass guitar
* Matt Wilson: drums
 
http://www.myramelford.com/ 
http://www.myramelford.com/discographywholetree.html


Reviews
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by Michael G. Nastos 
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-whole-tree-gone-r1709234

Myra Melford's pithy, candid, creative, quiet fire music is best heard in
concert, but her studio recordings give you a very good helping of what's she's
capable of in a shorter form. The sextet dubbed Be Bread has evolved over a
handful of years, mixing and matching instruments and timbres that favor the
lithe, playful, and at times craggy piano style of Melford. With clarinetist Ben
Goldberg, trumpeter Cuong Vu, and guitarist Brandon Ross, Melford has set yet
another new standard of excellence in the modern progressive world of jazz. It's
also admirable that drummer Matt Wilson is on yet another world-class project as
a sideman alongside the still underappreciated acoustic bass guitarist Stomu
Takeishi. While these compositions comprise, in part, older material, some taken
from the suite "The Whole Place Goes Up," she continues to massage and morph
this music with startling originality and purpose. Goldberg's clarinet -- taking
over for predecessor Marty Ehrlich -- sports an unforced, simpler feeling like
the noble, ebony colored wood it is made from. With the more demonstrative Vu,
they come to terms Melford's rambling, bluesy piano with quick unison lines and
spiky accents on "Moon Bird," breeze along in the modified tango "Through the
Same Gate," or create high drama in combustible modal freedom for the 5/4 beat
of the title selection. Melford's balanced music is a marvelous combination of
composed and spontaneously improvised approaches, best heard on "A Generation
Comes & Another Goes," much like a Carla Bley mix of spooky seriousness and
dancing whimsy. Ross, a far too talented player to continue flying under the
radar, gets a sweet, plucky feature during "On the Lip Of Insanity," where the
band is careful being careful. At times you hear funky or Eastern Indian
inferences, while overall, the music is not so complicated as it is elegant and
parabolic. Happily, it is another triumph for Melford in that her hot streak of
extraordinarily original projects keeps rolling on and upping the ante.

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by John Sharpe 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35205

by Stef

by Kevin Le Gendre 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/qjd3

por Sergio Piccirilli (es) 
http://elintruso.com/2010/03/20/myra-melfords-be-bread-the-whole-tree-gone/