Jazz Articles about Amina Claudine Myers

Wadada Leo Smith / Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens

by Karl Ackermann
April 20, 2024

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Wadada Leo Smith has produced a number of small masterpieces in the form of themed box sets. The prolific composer/trumpeter has aged into a creative period analogous to few of his contemporaries. His monumental Ten Freedom Summers (TUM, 2013)--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--America's National Parks (Cuneiform Records, 2016), and Trumpet (TUM, 2021), have each taken disparate roads in redefining creative music. The relative brevity and contemplative atmosphere of Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, ...

New Releases, A Pride of Jazz Leos, Congratulations To Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
July 31, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Kaisa's Machine, Amy Engelhardt, the Towner Galaher Organ Trio, with a single from vocalist Monika Ryan, plus birthday shoutouts to guitarist Mary Osborne, vocalists Kay Starr, Helen Merrill, Luciana Souza, Phoebe Snow, Cynthia Scott, Janis Siegel, Joanie Palatto, Carmen Bradford, among others, closing with a salute to newly awarded Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so ...

Sons d'Hiver 2023

by Luciano Rossetti
February 18, 2023

Amina Claudine Myers

by Paolo Peviani
April 12, 2017

Il tratto principale della mia musica. Il piano e la voce gospel delle origini, che suonavo da ragazza. Questo era durante il periodo del Gospel classico, in cui gruppi al femminile come Clara Ward, The Davis Sisters e le Gospel Harmonettes' andavano in radio e facevano concerti. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. L'apertura, la capacità di ascoltarsi reciprocamente e di fidarsi della loro creatività mentre suonano. Come musicista, ...

Amina Claudine Myers: Sama Rou. Songs From My Soul

by Maurizio Zerbo
March 28, 2017

Gli spirituals sono parte integrante del mondo interiore di Amina Claudine Myers, che li ha rivisitati ciclicamente e sempre in forme diverse. In questo Sama Rou. Songs From My Soul il suo pianoforte è assistito da un vocalismo essenziale ma ispirato, con il quale interpreta alcuni grandi standard di un glorioso repertorio. A fare da trait d'union ci pensa la vena lirica e nostalgica della Myers, sempre al servizio della raffinatezza armonica con cui esplora gli anfratti armonici insiti in ...

Amina Claudine Myers: From Mozart to Miles and Beyond

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 26, 2009

Composer, pianist and singer Amina Claudine Myers is a part of the first generation of the famed Chicago collective the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Coming north from her native Blackwell, Arkansas, she was an unusual presence in the organization--not just as one of the few female members, but as a singer and songwriter willing to, at times, employ traditional song structures. Outside of the AACM, Myers has played in bands led by Gene Ammons, Dexter Gordon, ...

Jazzonia: Little Boy Don't Get Scared

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 3, 2006

Un pò di hip-hop, una spruzzatina di lounge music, l’immancabile dj set, schegge di rap, un ensemble di archi, profumi soul, e lo spirito del vocalese che aleggia su una manciata di classici dell’american music. Un cocktail malriuscito di un barman sprovveduto o ambizioso? Non proprio se il soggetto in questione risponde a quel ragazzaccio di Bill Laswell e se per l’occasione convoca attorno a sé una ciurma di navigati bucanieri dell’improvvisazione come Karl Berger, Nicky Skopelitis, Brandon Ross, e ...