Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers ( born March 21, 1943 in Blackwell, Arkansas) is an American jazz musician ( pianist, organist and singer ).

Life and work

Myers grew up in one of gospel and rhythm 'n' blues oriented environment up in Texas, but stopped as adolescents and European music, such as Mozart's Requiem. She sang in gospel choirs and began seven years playing the piano. In the mid- 1960s, she moved as a school teacher to Chicago, where she played with Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, but then the musicians union Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians joined. Today, Myers is considered an important representative of the AACM. With saxophonist Maurice McIntyre Kalaparusha Amina took in 1969 on her first jazz album. In 1976 she moved to New York City and took there with Lester Bowie ( African Children, 1978) and Muhal Richard Abrams ( Duet, 1981) and founded their own groups. The early 1980s, she lived for some years in Europe. In 1985, she played in Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Since the 1990s, it is more common to hear in the context of Bill Laswell. In Lester Bowie's organ ensemble, she invented idiosyncratic combinations of traditional African- American music and free jazz. They also worked with Marian McPartland, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Frank Lowe, Jeanne Lee, Leroy Jenkins, Jim Pepper and Ray Anderson.

Myers wrote a contemporary musical, several major compositions for various ensembles, participated in the Off- Broadway musical production of Is not Misbehavin ' with and also appeared as an actress in appearance. The roots of their music are today in the gospel, spirituals and blues. Myers provides these elements are not just side by side, but can they flow into each other with different weighting. As a singer she impresses with its significant full voice, the earthy blues brings good effect.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Poems For Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown ( 1979)
  • Song For Mother E (1979, with Pheeroan akLaff )
  • Salutes Bessie Smith (1980, with Cecil McBee and Jimmy Lovelace )
  • The Circle Of Time (1983, with Don Pate and Thurman Barker )
  • Jumping In The Sugar Bowl (1984, with Thomas Palmer and Reggie Nicholson )
  • Country Girl (1986, with Patience Higgins, Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Jerome Harris, Reggie Nicholson and Bola Idowu )
  • Amina (1987, with Jerome Harris, Reggie Nicholson, Bola Idowu, Ray Mantilla, Catherine Russell and David Peaston )
  • Women In (E) Motion Festival (1988, Release: 1993, with Jerome Harris and Reggie Nicholson )
  • Wasted Life Blues ( 1988). In: Various, Women in (E) Motion Sampler (1988-1994, Release: 1995, with Jerome Harris and Reggie Nicholson )
  • In Touch (1989, with Jerome Harris, Reggie Nicholson, Flare Funston, Pete Levin and Jason Mills )
  • Marian McPartland 's Piano Jazz With Guest Amina Claudine Myers ( 1991)
Gospel music David Murray (saxophonist) Leroy Jenkins (jazz musician) Ray Anderson (musician) Off-Broadway Integrated Authority File
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