Amina Claudine Myers in discussion with Adele Oliver

A rare chance to hear Amina Claudine Myers’ story from her own voice, tracing her life and career’s trajectory through her early days in Chicago’s AACM collective, her solo work, collaborative work (including stints with Lester Bowie, Archie Shepp and Wadada Leo Smith) and her music today. Amina’s deep absorption in jazz, the avante-garde, blues, classical, gospel, and world music traditions positions her within a fascinating space in musical, poltical and cultural historical, and hopefully this discussion offers us the opportunity to delve deeper into this.

Adèle Oliver – an artist, scholar, and linguist originally Birmingham – will facilitate this talk. Adele’s practice focusses on black music, politics and culture and colonialism. Her recent publication “Deeping It” examines the criminalisation of UK Drill music.