Muhal Richard Abrams, Amina Claudine Myers

Duet pairs two pianists from the Chicago AACM: Muhal Richard Abrams, who co-founded the association in 1965 and was its first president, and Amina Claudine Myers, who had also come up through the association. Recorded in Milan in May 1981 for Black Saint, it sets their two instruments side by side across seven pieces, most of them by Abrams. The material runs from extended pieces to a short rag, with titles that point back to Chicago.

The session took place on May 11 and 12, 1981 at Barigozzi Studio in Milan, engineered by Giancarlo Barigozzi and produced by Giovanni Bonandrini; Abrams wrote the liner notes. Both are credited on Yamaha C3D grand pianos, and the label's own credits also list synthesizer for Abrams and harpsichord for Myers. Abrams composed the first five pieces, starting with Transparency Of Lobo Lubu, at almost ten minutes the longest on the record. Miss Amina is named for his partner, Swang Rag Swang a four-and-a-half-minute rag, and Down The Street From The Gene Ammons Public School a nod to the Chicago tenor saxophonist. Myers wrote Dance From The East, and the closing One For Peggy is credited to both. Both pianists were later named NEA Jazz Masters, Abrams in 2010 and Myers in 2024.

This is the Black Saint CD 120051-2, which Discogs lists as a 1993 reissue of the album first released on LP in 1981, with the seven tracks of the original.