Amina Claudine Myers

[king ubu]

Red: you can find her playing organ (and singing on one cut) on this fine Ray Anderson disc, if I'm not mistaken:

[jazzbo]

She has made some great contributions to various Bill Laswell productions.

[Alexander Hawkins]

Thanks!

[jlhoots]

She's on a nice fairly recent Archie Shepp Quartet CD called Tomorrow Will Be Another Day.

[kh1958]

She has a new release (recorded in 1991), under Jim Pepper's name--Afro Indian Blues, on Pao. Also with Anthony Cox and Leopoldo Fleming. Very nice one.

[Guest akanalog]

the fifth power is live?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

She does some really nice stuff on James "Blood" Ullmer's "Blue blood".

MG

[alocispepraluger102]

her NPR live extended version of 'e'(piano, organ) from the early 80's is one of the most memorable pieces of music i have heard in 55 years of listening.

Edited October 4, 2006 by alocispepraluger102

[Alexander Hawkins]

Just listening to the edition of Marian McPartland's 'Piano Jazz' with Amina, and there's some great playing here too! (And as you say, she comes across as extremely likeable)

[musicmargaret]

(photo by Jamie Anderson)

Well, too late now, but I hope those in the New York area didn't miss this one:

Jazz / blues / gospel / and beyond concert, Wednesday, March 28th, 'O7: Henry Grimes (bass, violin) and Amina Claudine Myers (piano, voice), 1O p.m. at the Stone, northwest corner of Ave. C and 2nd St., New York City, www.thestonenyc.com, nycthestone@yahoo.com, no phone. Take F train to 2nd Ave. & Houston St. stop, or #M9, M14D, or M21 bus to / along Houston St.

A very original, soulful, and powerful pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and arranger, AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS was born in Blackwell, Arkansas and started studying music when she was seven, singing with gospel groups in school, and later receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education in Little Rock. After moving to Chicago, she taught in the public schools for six years, attended Roosevelt University, and joined the AACM. She moved to New York in 1976, where she worked with Lester Bowie and Muhal Richard Abrams, formed her own group, and toured with Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra in 1985. Owing to her deep spirituality, advanced musical training, and wide-ranging background, she can move gracefully from dusty-road blues and soulful funk to shimmering tone poems and street-smart urban R&B, balancing precision with passion as she goes. Ms. Myers has also expanded into the theater realm, writing pieces for this medium, acting, and composing music for a number of off-Broadway productions. Amina Claudine Myers has released nine recordings as a leader on labels including Sweet Earth, Leo, Black Saint, Minor Music, and Novus, and she can also be heard on recordings by Muhal Richard Abrams, Ray Anderson, Martha and Fontella Bass, Lester Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Charlie Haden, Bill Laswell, Frank Lowe, Archie Shepp, Henry Threadgill, James Blood Ulmer, and more.

For further information: www.myspace.com/aminaclaudinemyers,

http://aacm-newyork.com/members.html (and click on her name).

Master bassist and violinist HENRY GRIMES, missing from the music world since the late '6O's, has made an unprecedented comeback after receiving the gift of a bass (a green one called Olive Oil!) from William Parker in December, 'O2 to replace the instrument Henry had been forced to give up some 3O years earlier. Between the mid-'5O's and the mid-'6O's, the Juilliard-educated Henry Grimes played brilliantly on some 5O albums with an enormous range of musicians, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus (yes, Charles Mingus), Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Murray, Sonny Rollins, Roswell Rudd, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Lennie Tristano, Charles Tyler, McCoy Tyner, and many more ... and then after a disastrous trip out West in 1968 with a damaged bass that he couldn't pay to have repaired, he disappeared. Making a miraculous return to the music world in 2OO3, these days Henry lives, works, and teaches in New York City and has been playing primarily as a leader with great musicians of today such as Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Joe Lovano, David Murray, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, John Tchicai, and many more. Since 2OO3, Henry Grimes has toured extensively in Europe (19 countries and counting) as well as Canada and the U.S., meanwhile adding the violin to his bandstand voice, and adding published writings and illustrations to his artistic media.

For further information: www.henrygrimes.com, musicmargaret@earthlink.net, 212-841-O899.