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We are grateful to have seen the AACM@60! show at the Walker on Saturday night. Wadada Leo Smith and Amina Claudine Myers performed works composed by Smith and it was incredible.

The music fell somewhere between modern classical and jazz and both the horn and the piano were really emotional and the two sat almost facing each other and you could feel the unspoken conversation while they were playing.

Muhal Richard Abrams

Born: September 19th 1930, Chicago Illinois, USA Died: October 29th 2017 New York City, New York, USA American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, educator and administrator. He co-founded the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in Chicago.

Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind - new album by onetime AACM member; mostly solo piano, some organ & spoken word