Mieke Miami is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and producer from Luckenwalde in Brandenburg. Inspired by the atmosphere of her surroundings and influenced by artists like Lester Young, Duke Ellington, and Dorothy Ashby, Mieke’s music embodies a vivid picture of a polyphonic world. After her beautifully intricate debut album “In the Old Forest” (2015), Mieke released the major, indeed pop album “Montecarlo Magic” in 2021 on the Berlin in-label Fun In The Church, which featured a cover version of “Cry Baby Cry” that became a real radio hit. Already here, a path could be seen: the trained saxophonist, who studied Jazz Saxophone at the University of the Arts in Berlin, increasingly brings together her two major concerns: songwriting and the world of jazz. This development continues on her current album “Birdland”, we hear an album of today and tomorrow, but also somehow from the year 1976. It breathes the spirit of the seventies. Not the virtuosic spirit of the late Weather Report, but the beautiful exploratory spirit of the early Weather Report. And a bit of Carla Bley and Yusef Lateef.