Ron Miles, cornet; Liberty Ellman, guit; Stomu Takeishi, b guit; Tyshawn Sorey, dr; MM, p.Anything by pianist-composer Myra Melford is good. Also experimental. You have to expect that she will push the boundaries. In this version of her current ensemble, Snowy Egret, she does wonders –what a surprise! But they’re not all immediately accessible. Melford and her groups play their own music, which draws on the history and present of jazz but also of classical music. It’s not a music you can draw an immediate close to it: this is what it is, this is what’s it’s not. It’s an expansive, open inclusion of what modern music now includes. Jazz predominates , but it’s not all jazz. I feel like I’m copping out in describing what is unique and personal in this sometimes deeply moving, other times energizing set of songs. But I feel I have to focus on composition. Melford is an absolute bear on any keyboard instrument and her associates on this album, guitarist Liberty Ellman, and cornetist Ron Miles, not to mention bassist Takeishi and Sorey on drums, are sensitive and sympathetic collaborators. But the drivers on this album are Melford’s ten compositions, which all involved realize beautifully.