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Amina Claudine Myers: Solace of the Mind
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un pianismo decisamente nero, peraltro senza alcun tipo di didascalismo o forzatura, è quanto ci arriva da questo nuovo lavoro, solitario, di Amina Claudine Myers, inciso alla fine di ottobre del 2023 e freschissimo di pubblicazione. Amina, classe 1942, come più o meno tutti sanno (o dovrebbero comunque sapere) è una delle figure di riferimento (al femminile senz'altro la più carismatica) della scuola di Chicago, con incisioni accanto a Muhal Richard Abrams, Art Ensemble, Lester Bowie, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry ...
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by Troy Dostert
One of the under-heralded legends of the jazz avant-garde, keyboardist Amina Claudine Myers is finally getting her due. An early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the mid-1960s, her efforts were sometimes overshadowed by outsized colleagues such as Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie, or Henry Threadgill. But recent years have provided an opportunity to reassess her standing in the jazz canon. In 2024, Myers was a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, and ...
Continue ReadingWadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
by Giuseppe Segala
Amina Claudine Myers e Wadada Leo Smith sono stati protagonisti fin dalle prime mosse del fermento artistico che ha preso il nome di Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, a Chicago nel 1965 per iniziativa di Muhal Richard Abrams, Malachi Favors, Fred Anderson e altri artisti più giovani, che cercavano nuove strade, mescolando in modo inedito improvvisazione e scrittura, musica e spinta sociale. Ma non avevano mai registrato in duo, anche se proprio tale formula è stata alla base ...
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by Doug Collette
On Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens, trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith and keyboardist/composer Amina Claudine Myers evince as much curiosity as passion for their subject(s). This is the first recorded collaboration between the two, but they were both early members of AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). And besides Smith's familiarity with the duo format--The Emerald Duets (Tum Records, 2022)--he had composed a paean to the (now) newly-minted NEA Jazz Master keyboardist in 2015, titling ...
Continue ReadingWadada Leo Smith, Amina Claudine Myers, Andrea Grossi, Flukten & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
Enjoy a set featuring Wadada Leo Smith's and Amina Claudine Myers' magical collaboration, the return of Flukten plus a number of really exciting collaborations between forward-looking European and US musicians.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Flukten “Flukten" Flukten (Odin) 0:16 Host talks 5:42 The Beat Freaks feat. Ralph Alessi “The Mechanics Of Nature" Mechanics of Nature (Jazz Generator) 7:06 Host talks 12:15 Andrea Grossi Blend 3+ Jim Black ...
Continue ReadingWadada Leo Smith - Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
by Mike Jurkovic
Sacred music for what many consider a very sacred place, Central Park's Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths, and Gardens unites two natural forces- -the trumpeted truth of Wadada Leo Smith and the open air church of pianist & organist Amina Claudine Myers--for their first collaboration since their early years as active members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Founded in 1965, in the heat of Chicago, by pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, pianist Jodie Christian, drummer Steve McCall ...
Continue ReadingWadada Leo Smith / Amina Claudine Myers: Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens
by Karl Ackermann
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, ...
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