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Amina Claudine Myers

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Amina Claudine Myers on 20 April 2022. Amina Claudine Myers has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 32 episodes and was first played on 24 August 2015.

Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942 in Blackwell, near Atkins, Arkansas) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. Myers started singing and playing the piano and organ as a child in church choirs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas, where she grew up, and directed choirs at an early age. She graduated in concert music and music education at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 1960s. After graduation, Myers moved to Chicago where she taught music, attended classes at Roosevelt University and worked with musicians such as Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons. In 1966 she joined the AACM in Chicago, focusing on vocal compositions and arrangements, and recording her first jazz album with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre in 1969. In 1976 Myers relocated to New York City, where she intensified her compositional work and expanded it into the realm of Off-Broadway productions. She also continued performing and recording as a pianist and organist with Lester Bowie (African Children, 1978) and Muhal Richard Abrams (Duet, 1981). In 1985 she joined Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Notable collaborations also include recordings with Bill Laswell, Marian McPartland, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Frank Lowe, Leroy Jenkins, Jim Pepper and Ray Anderson.

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Amina Claudine Myers

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Amina Claudine Myers on 20 April 2022. Amina Claudine Myers has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 32 episodes and was first played on 24 August 2015.

Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942 in Blackwell, near Atkins, Arkansas) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. Myers started singing and playing the piano and organ as a child in church choirs in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in Texas, where she grew up, and directed choirs at an early age. She graduated in concert music and music education at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 1960s. After graduation, Myers moved to Chicago where she taught music, attended classes at Roosevelt University and worked with musicians such as Sonny Stitt and Gene Ammons. In 1966 she joined the AACM in Chicago, focusing on vocal compositions and arrangements, and recording her first jazz album with Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre in 1969. In 1976 Myers relocated to New York City, where she intensified her compositional work and expanded it into the realm of Off-Broadway productions. She also continued performing and recording as a pianist and organist with Lester Bowie (African Children, 1978) and Muhal Richard Abrams (Duet, 1981). In 1985 she joined Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra. Notable collaborations also include recordings with Bill Laswell, Marian McPartland, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Frank Lowe, Leroy Jenkins, Jim Pepper and Ray Anderson.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AminaClaudineMyers

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Wasted Life Blues
Amina Claudine Myers
Leo Records1980
Thank You
Amina Claudine Myers
Amina C Records2016
The Immortal
Amina Claudine Myers
Leo Records1980
African Blues
Jim Pepper, Amina Claudine Myers, Anthony Cox, Leopoldo Fleming
PAO Records2006
The Harlem Meer
Wadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers
Red Hook Records2024
Sweet Earth Flying
Amina Claudine Myers
Sweet Earth Records1979
3/4's Of 4/4
Amina Claudine Myers
Leo Records1980
Golden Lady In The Graham Cracker Window
Amina Claudine Myers
Sweet Earth Records1979
I'm Not Afraid
Amina Claudine Myers
Leo Records1980
God Has Smiled On Me (Traditional Gospel)
Lester Bowie, Arthur Blythe, Malachi Favors, Amina Myers, Phillip Wilson
DIW, Black Saint1983