Melford is interviewed in anticipation of a Northern California show.

You could say 2007 was a good year for jazz pianist Myra Melford, who released two different albums that garnered acclaim and landed on jazz critics’ top 10 lists. Spark!, for the Palmetto label, paired her with reed player Marty Ehrlich. On Big Picture (for Cryptogramophone) she worked with bassist Mark Dresser and drummer Matt Wilson as Trio M.

Saturday, Jan. 26, the Redwood Jazz Alliance brings Melford, Ehrlich, Dresser and Wilson to Arcata for a concert at Humboldt State’s Fulkerson Recital Hall. The plan is to start with the Melford/Ehrlich duo, shift to Trio M, then conclude with a set by by Quartet M, a brand new group with Ehrlich joining the trio.