• 01. Introduction to... 04:56
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 02. God 08:54
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 03. Ritual 12:16
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 04. Cairo Part II 07:07
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 05. African Blues II 06:32
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 06. The 23rd Psalms Part I 02:45
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 07. Soul Funk No 1 07:43
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 08. Hardtime Blues 06:32
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 09. Happiness 05:16
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 10. Claudine's Blues 04:40
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

• 11. Song from the West 09:44
Performed by Amina Claudine Myers
Music by Amina Claudine Myers

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• Amina Claudine Myers - piano, organ, voice
• Oluwu ben Judah - bass
• Reggie Nicholson - percussion

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Amina Claudine Myers is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger. She has proven herself adept in the creative musical arts. She is well known for her works involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensembles and performances in any combination of formations. Ms. Myers' career in music began in her pre-teens assisting in chruch choirs as vocalist, piano/organist and later serving as choir director in her home state of Arkansas. She studied concert music at Philander College in Little Rock, completing her studies with a Bachelor of Arts degree in music education. After moving to Chicago in the 1960s Ms. Myers taught in the public school system there for six years, attended Roosevelt University and became a member of the AACM in 1966. In Chicago she first began composing music for voice and in 1975 organized her very first choir. Since 1976 Ms. Myers has resided in New York city where her career has become even more multifaceted. She has moved into the theater realm, writing pieces for this medium, acting and composing music for a number of off Broadway productions. Ms. Myers has recorded and/or performed with Archie Shepp, Charlie Haden's Liberation Orchestra, James Blood Ulmer, Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lester Bowie and Bill Laswell. She has currently nine recordings released under her own name.

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Jazz musician Amina Claudine Myers signs to Blue Music Group

American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and composer Amina Claudine Myers has signed to the Blue Music Group label. Augmented Variations, the tenth album in her discography, is the first release on the label.

Myers was born in 1942 in Blackwell, Arkansas. She has proven herself... Full Story