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Amina Claudine Myers

Salutes Bessie Smith

Very Rare Original LP released on Leo Records in 1980.

A very original pianist who  displays her gospel roots when she plays organ or sings, Amina Claudine Myers  started studying music when she was seven. She sang with gospel groups in  school. After moving to Chicago, Myers taught in the public schools, played with  Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and joined the AACM. She moved to New York in 1976  (where she would record with Lester Bowie and Muhal Richard Abrams), formed her  own group, spent a few years in the early '80s in Europe, and toured with  Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra in 1985. Amina Claudine Myers has  recorded a diverse variety of music as a leader for Sweet Earth, Leo, Black  Saint, Minor Music, and Novus.

Track Listing

Side One

1 Wasted Life Blues 7:00
2 Dirty No-Gooder's Blues 4:10
3 Jailhouse Blues 6:40
4 It Makes My Love Come Down 3:45

Side Two

1 The Blues (Straight To You) 7:45
2 African Blues 14:42
 

 

Released on Leo Records in  1980

Catalogue Number LR 103

Record is in Near Mint condition

Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition

 

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