Melodic Art–Tet is a live album by the cooperative group of the same name, featuring saxophonist Charles Brackeen, trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, bassist William Parker, drummer Roger Blank, and percussionist Tony Waters.

[1][2][3][4][5] Despite the fact that the group, described by author Val Wilmer in her 1977 book As Serious As Your Life as "one of the most satisfying of the younger bands playing in New York,"[6] existed for over four years, the album is their sole release, and was recorded shortly before their breakup.

"[10] Dusted Magazine's Derek Taylor called the album a "loft jazz treasure," and commented: "the music echoes the band moniker in giving melody equal weight with freer leaning improvisations.

"[12] Writing for Point of Departure, Brian Morton noted that the music is characterized by "strong binary melodies, elemental rhythms, all the root sugars and enzymes that go to the making of jazz and a survivalist urgency," and remarked: "One doesn't notice the usual alternation of theme statement of soloing.

"[14] In an article for The List, Stewart Smith wrote: "Blank is hugely engaging throughout, laying swinging tom grooves under Brackeen and Abdullah's spiralling exchanges and the young William Parker's urgent bowed bass.