Amina Claudine Myers Interview

Source: BA Podcast #84.

Ms. Myers is a fascinating and unique figure in jazz. She was one of the earliest members of the AACM. (For those who don’t know, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians is an organization formed by Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and a few other musicians in Chicago in the 1960s and which continues to this day. A tremendous number of the most important avant-garde jazz musicians of the mid to late 20th century and the 21st century have come out of the AACM, including Anthony Braxton, Henry Threadgill, Fred Anderson, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Wadada Leo Smith, Matana Roberts, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, and Amina Claudine Myers.)