While Amina Claudine Myers was visiting Kansas City as a child, two women unexpectedly asked her to sing. “I didn’t feel comfortable doing anything,” she tells me, “but the Creator put me in positions ...

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Wadada Leo Smith has produced a number of small masterpieces in the form of themed box sets. The prolific composer/trumpeter has aged into a creative period analogous ...

As the first full day of the Long Play Festival, Saturday offered the event's usual diversity of offerings, with 25-plus performances ranging from New-Music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars through ...

NEW YORK — Amina Claudine Myers was sitting in her apartment in Manhattan, surrounded by paintings and photographs as she recalled a rehearsal there almost 40 years ago. She had been playing the same ...

The Kenneth Davenport Residency for New American Music at SUNY New Paltz was established in 1985 by the School of Fine & Performing Arts and the Davenport Family to support residencies for ...

Frederick Experimental Music Association will present National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Amina Claudine Myers in a solo concert at JBK Theater on the campus of Frederick Community College at ...