Part birthday celebration and listening session for NEA Jazz Master and Jazz Foundation Fellow Amina Claudine Myers’. Come take a 40 year auditory journey through her discography with Amina herself telling stories and sharing memories of her life and work. Audiences are welcome and to flow in and out. Food and drink will be part of the celebration.

 


ABOUT THE ARTIST

Amina Claudine Myers is a pioneering figure in American music whose work bridges the spiritual traditions of gospel, the improvisational power of jazz, and the avant-garde experimentation of the Black Arts Movement. Emerging from the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago, Myers developed a sound rooted in both the sanctified church and radical innovation, using voice and piano as instruments of deep emotional and cultural expression. Her compositions—whether sacred works, theatrical collaborations, or free improvisations—carry an ancestral resonance that reclaims Black womanhood as a site of divine creativity and political strength. Through her fearless blending of genres and her mentorship of younger artists, Myers has expanded the vocabulary of jazz, proving that music can be both a testimony and a revolution, a prayer and a performance of liberation.