''Salutes Bessie Smith'' is the second album by American pianist
Amina Claudine Myers featuring performances recorded in 1980 for the
Leo
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label.
Reception
The
Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars stating "Vocal perfection and landmark recording for this keyboardist and singer. Desert island music".
[Nastos, M. G]
Allmusic Review
accessed May 31, 2011
Track listing
:''All compositions by Amina Claudine Myers except as indicated''
# "Wasted Life Blues" (
Bessie Smith) - 6:58
# "Dirty No-Gooder's Blues" (Smith) - 4:13
# "
Jailhouse Blues
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" (Smith) - 6:43
# "It Makes My Love Come Down" (Smith) - 3:50
# "The Blues
traight to You - 7:10
# "African Blues" - 14:44
:*Recorded at Big Apple Recording Studios in New York City on June 19 & 22, 1980
Personnel
*
Amina Claudine Myers -
piano,
organ
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voice
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Cecil McBee
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Biography Early life and career
McBee was born in Tu ...
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bass
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Jimmy Lovelace
James Ross Lovelace (February 6, 1940 – October 29, 2004) was an American jazz drummer.
Biography
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. By the early 1960s, he had begun performing in jazz clubs in New York City. From the mid-1960s to the ...
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drums
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,
bells
References
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Leo Records albums
Amina Claudine Myers albums
1980 albums