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MELT All the Guns are a revolutionary jazz trio formed by drummer Devin Gray, trumpeter Ralph Alessi and a pianist Myslaure Augustin.
Their music radiates now-times in the US and Berlin, where Gray spends much of his time. I ask him about his life in music and the themes of the trio’s new album, Melt All the Guns 2.
Born in Portland, Maine in 1983, his father a businessman, his mother a health worker, it was his grandfather who set him on the road to jazz.
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