Artist description Catchy, jazzy, stick-in-your-brain music and lyrics... With a masterful ability to weave song and poetry into a rich tapestry of sound and feeling, Myro is a natural born performer. What he reveals to his listener is his very heart and soul and no less. _________________________________________________________ "Myro and his music are in a category of their own - I've had to coin some new words to adequately describe the man and his music - "myroesque" and "myroic" being a couple of them. His music is fresh, unique, and sticks in your brain, where, if you're not careful, it takes root and grows on you, in a very pleasant way, and you'll catch yourself humming the hooks at all sorts of unsuspected points in your day. I admire Myro for his courage and vision in presenting to us his uncompromised musical vision in an era of rampant conformity and wholesale clones." - Steve Wolfe, Jazz Producer, Recording Artist

Music Style Eclectic Americana

Musical Influences Jazz, Folk, R & B, Salsa, Samba, Broadway, Country Blues

Similar Artists Mose Allison, Randy Newman

Artist History Raised in Chicago, Myro found his musical expression influenced and shaped by the tremendous ethnic diversity offered by the city's rich music scene of the sixties. While still in high school, he had mastered various styles of America's folk music, becoming a Woody Guthrie style troubadour and in turn a proficient bluegrass banjo picker and a soulful blues harp player. Myro inevitably found himself a part of the pioneering force of diverse musical styles as he journeyed through his own personal creative evolution. When he moved to northern California in the early seventies, Myro taught himself to play piano and it became the medium for his more advanced and unadulterated musical compositions. At the same time he was avidly absorbing as much of that great American Classical music - Jazz - as he could. The influence of what he calls music of the "Afro-Americas": Jazz, R & B, Salsa, Samba, etc, can easily be heard in his songs.

Group Members Myro - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano; Steve Wolfe - tenor and soprano saxophones, oboe, flute, vocals; Guenevere Wolfe - vocals; Bill Hannaford - trombone, baritone helicon; Dale Gutridge - trumpet, flugelhorn; Bill Fouty - bass; Stan hale - drums; Jim Passarell - bass (on Help Me Be Untrue, Song For Mavis, and Now There Is You)

Instruments Acoustic and electric guitars, piano, tenor and soprano sax, oboe, flute, trombone, baritone helicon, trumpet, flugelhorn, bass, drums, vocals

Albums Song For Mavis (1998)

Press Reviews "...a lot of terrific songs, wonderfully produced and expertly performed ...catchy tunes, good hooks and subtle humor. What more could you ask for ?" - Richard Isen, Musicians On the Internet _________________________________________________________ "Wonderful storytelling. I love the images and vocal poetry. Very evocative vocal...unique vocal sound. The humor is welcome in a traditionally serious medium. There is a slice of life lesson in poetry and verse that I enjoyed immensely." - Jeff Weber, multi-grammy Jazz Producer _________________________________________________________ "Myro comes across as the urbane and witty Mose Allison of contemporary Latin music... His original songs ought to appeal to admirers of Allison or Randy Newman as they project a wry irony that revels in the bittersweet wisdom of experience... real refreshment." - Cadence Magazine _________________________________________________________ "There is a renaissance of the Great American Song and its name is Myro" - Leslie Piper, KBBF, Coherent Power

Location Santa Rosa, California - USA

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