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Amina Claudine Myers
Amina Claudine Myers (born March 21, 1942) is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger. Biography Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, "Myers was brought up largely by her great-aunt, a schoolteacher, and her great-uncle, a carpenter by trade who played the clarinet, piano, and flute". She started taking piano lessons around the age of four, including at Sacred Hearts Catholic School, and when she was seven, her family moved to Roosevelt, a Black community outside of Dallas, Texas. Myers took piano and violin lessons, but eventually, partly for financial reasons, settled on the piano, taking weekly lessons of fifteen minutes each. She began to learn some European classical music at high school, but this was interrupted when she and the family moved back to Blackwell. Myers majored in music education at Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. In her second year, she was invited to play at The Safari Room in Memphis, Tennessee. This engagement, howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer than 100. An "off-Broadway production" is a production of a play (theatre), play, musical theatre, musical, or revue that appears in such a venue and adheres to related trade union and other contracts. Some shows that premiere off-Broadway are subsequently produced on Broadway. History The term originally referred to any venue, and its productions, on a street intersecting Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District, New York, Theater District, the hub of the American theatre industry. It later became defined by the League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers as a professional venue in Manhattan with a seating capacity of at least 100, but not more than 499, or a production that appears in such a venue and adhe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salutes The Chicago Blues Tradition
''Salutes the Chicago Blues Tradition'' is a live album recorded on 7 July 1993 in Geneva, Switzerland by the Art Ensemble of Chicago and released on their own AECO label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors and Don Moye with Chicago Beau, Amina Claudine Myers, Frank Lacy, James Carter and Herb Walker. Track listing Disc One # "Erika/Carefree" (Joseph Jarman/Roscoe Mitchell) – 22:38 # "Blues For Zazen" (Joseph Jarman) – 21:22 # "Tin Pan Alley" (Lincoln T Beauchamp, Jr.) – 12:23 Disc Two # "I, The Blues" (Lincoln T Beauchamp, Jr.) – 7:23 # "Hoochie Coochie Man" (Willie Dixon) – 12:17 # "Night Time Is The Right Time" (Leroy Carr) – 9:31 # "Odwalla" (Roscoe Mitchell) – 5:55 # "Got My Mojo Workin'" (Preston Foster, McKinley Morganfield) – 5:49 :*Recorded in Geneva, Switzerland on July 7, 1993 Personnel *Lester Bowie: trumpet *Roscoe Mitchell: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone tenor saxophone *Joseph Jarma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combined to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used. History Members of what was to become the Art Ensemble performed together under various band names in the mid-sixties, as members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). They performed on the 1966 album ''Sound (Roscoe Mitchell album), Sound,'' as the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet. The Sextet included saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, trum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duet (Muhal Richard Abrams Album)
''Duet'' is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams featuring duet performances with Amina Claudine Myers, released on the Italian Black Saint label in 1981. Reception Critical views of the album have been mixed. The AllMusic review by Ron Wynn states: "This was an intense, yet also swinging, enjoyable session, one in which Abrams displayed the mastery of multiple genres that's distinguished his music, and Myers her distinctive mix of secular and spiritual elements".Wynn, R. AllMusic Reviewaccessed 1 April 2009 ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' awarded the album stars, stating: "Retrospect hasn't changed our view that the two pianists simply get in each other's way". ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' called the album "a surprisingly lyrical and diverse encounter". Track listing ''All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams except as indicated'' # "Transparency of Lobo Lubu" - 9:55 # "Miss Amina" - 7:42 # "Swang Rag Swang" - 4:30 # "Down the Street from the Gene Ammons Public Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spihumonesty
''Spihumonesty'' is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams, released on the Italian Black Saint label in 1979. It features performances by Abrams, George Lewis, Roscoe Mitchell, Amina Claudine Myers, Youseff Yancy, Leonard Jones, and Jay Clayton. accessed April 1, 2009 Reception '''' awarded the album 3 stars, stating: "This drummerless band moves through the charts like information through a printed circuit, and there is an impressive simultaneity to some of the cues which suggests that at least that some of this music was predetermined and meticulously rehearsed".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifea Blinec
''Lifea Blinec'' is an album by the American musician Muhal Richard Abrams, released on the Arista Novus label in 1978. It features performances by Abrams, Joseph Jarman, Douglas Ewart, Amina Claudine Myers and Thurman Barker. Reception ''The New York Times'' wrote that "the instrumentation ... is provocative but often ungainly; the thicker textures tend to become muddy." The AllMusic review stated: "Muhal Richard Abrams headed one of his finest small combos on this intense quintet session from 1978." Track listing ''All compositions by Muhal Richard Abrams'' # "Bud P. (Dedicated To Bud Powell)" - 7:52 # "Lifea Blinec" - 10:02 # "Ja Do Thu (Dedicated To Jarman, Douglas & Thurman)" - 8:19 # "Duo 1" - 8:18 # "Duo 2" - 5:01 *Recorded at Gravado Streeterville Recording Studio in Chicago, February, 1978 Personnel *Muhal Richard Abrams: piano, percussion, conductor *Joseph Jarman: bass saxophone, bassoon, alto clarinet, flute, soprano saxophone, percussion, vocals *Douglas Ewart: b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muhal Richard Abrams
Muhal Richard Abrams (born Richard Lewis Abrams; September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and jazz pianist in the free jazz medium. He recorded and toured the United States, Canada and Europe with his orchestra, sextet, quartet, duo, and as a solo pianist. Early life Abrams's mother, Edna, was born in Memphis. His father, Milton, was born in Alabama and moved with his parents to Chicago. Richard Lewis Abrams was born there, the second of nine children, on September 19, 1930. His father became a self-employed handyman; his mother was a housewife. "Abrams's paternal grandfather was 'what you call a junk man', selling the fruits of neighborhood foraging. Abrams and his brother would pull the cart around the neighborhood, eventually arriving at a junk-yard on State Street, where the items would be sold." Abrams first attended Forrestville public school in Chicago. He grew up in a gang area; truancy an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jumping In The Sugar Bowl
''Jumping in the Sugar Bowl'' is the fourth album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers featuring performances recorded in 1984 for the Minor Music label. Reception The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating "Intense, provocative mixture of outside and inside sensibilities. Myers at times ranges and attacks the keyboard, then will change direction and display a soulful, gospel-influenced style. The constantly shifting session keeps things interesting, and there are some fine solos as well".Wynn, RAllmusic Reviewaccessed May 31, 2011 Track listing :''All compositions by Amina Claudine Myers except as indicated'' # "Jumping in the Sugar Bowl" - 8:31 # "Another Day" ( Catherine Bowne, Amina Claudine Myers) - 6:03 # "Cecil B" - 9:24 # "Guten Morgen" - 9:46 # "Mind Chambers" - 6:10 # "Cameloupe" - 7:50 :*Recorded at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, Germany in March 1984 Personnel *Amina Claudine Myers - piano, organ, voice * Thomas Palmer - bass, electric b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Circle Of Time
''The Circle of Time'' is the fourth album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers, recorded in 1983 for the Italian Black Saint label. Reception The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Myers freely explores jazz, blues, and gospel-tinged creative music in her own inimitable way. All of these six pieces were written by Myers, each showcasing a different side of her joyous persona, making her music deep, listenable, tuneful, and emotional".Nastos, M. GAllMusic Reviewaccessed May 31, 2011 Track listing :''All compositions by Amina Claudine Myers'' # "Louisville" – 6:50 # "Plowed Fields" – 7:08 # "Do You Wanna Be Saved" – 8:13 # "Christine" – 8:58 # "The Clock" – 6:26 # "The Circle of Time" – 6:43 :*Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on February 3 & 4, 1983 Personnel *Amina Claudine Myers – piano, organ, harmonica, vocals *Don Pate – bass, electric bass *Thurman Barker Thurman Barker (born January 8, 1948, Chicago, Illinois, United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salutes Bessie Smith
''Salutes Bessie Smith'' is the second album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers, recorded in 1980 for the Leo label. Reception The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos stated: "Vocal perfection and landmark recording for this keyboardist and singer. Desert island music".Nastos, M. GAllMusic Reviewaccessed May 31, 2011 Track listing :''All compositions by Amina Claudine Myers except as indicated'' # "Wasted Life Blues" (Bessie Smith) - 6:58 # "Dirty No-Gooder's Blues" (Smith) - 4:13 # " Jailhouse Blues" (Smith) - 6:43 # "It Makes My Love Come Down" (Smith) - 3:50 # "The Blues traight to You - 7:10 # "African Blues" - 14:44 :*Recorded at Big Apple Recording Studios in New York City on June 19 & 22, 1980 Personnel *Amina Claudine Myers - piano, organ, voice *Cecil McBee - bass * Jimmy Lovelace - drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
