Poems for Piano: The Piano Music of Marion Brown is the debut album by American pianist Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers

Amina Claudine Myers in Blackwell, Arkansas; is an American jazz pianist, organist, vocalist, composer, and musical arranger.-Biography:...

 featuring performances recorded in 1979 for the Sweet Earth label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars stating "Poems for Piano is a superb recording, offering abundant evidence of both Marion Brown's deep and sensitive compositional gifts and Amina Claudine Myers' all-too-unrecognized strengths as a player and interpreter. Highly recommended".

Track listing

All compositions by Marion Brown except as indicated

1. "Sweet Earth Flying" - 10:00
2. "November Cotton Flower" - 9:08
3. "Evening Song" - 7:57
4. "Sunday Comedown" - 9:18
5. "Golden Lady in the Graham Cracker Window" - 5:00
6. "Sienna Maimoun" - 4:00
7. "Going Home" (Amina Claudine Myers) - 6:08
   • Recorded at Vanguard Studios in New York City on July 26, 1979