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| Amina Figarova. Photo: www.borneocoloours.com |
Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 7:00 PM
Friday, April 01, 2011 at 8:30 PM
Nighttown - Cleveland, OH
Admission: $20
Saturday, April 2, 2011 at 7:30 PM
The Ellen Theatre - Bozeman, MT
For tickets
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 3:30 PM
Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 4:00 PM
Gene Harris Jazz Festival, Jordan Ballroom D - Boise, ID
For tickets
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 4:00 PM
South Florida Jazz Society - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Jazz in the Grove Jazzfestival - Bay Springs, MS
Free admission
Free admission
Amina Figarova is one of the most productive jazz composers and talented jazz piano players from Europe. Amina started playing piano and composing at a very early age. She studied as a classical concert pianist at the Baku Conservatory, jazz performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Amina made her recording debut with Attraction in 1994, and was accepted into the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Colony in Aspen, Colorado in 1998.
With her husband multi-flutist Bart Platteau central to the three horn frontline Ms. Figarova arranges for her sextet, she plays compelling, artful and heartfelt changes on the urbane, bluesy lyricism originally developed by the likes of Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, et al. Though the recipient of rigorous Russian musical education in the classics, Amina has come to identify her sound with these master mainstream-progressives of recent jazz decades after having explored aspects of the avant garde (in September Suite, her shocked and sad response to terrorists attacks on American soil) and multi-keyboard fusion-oriented funk (on Another Me).
Amina is stylistically wide-ranging, unwilling to be pinned down, but most of her compositions on her album Above the Clouds (2008) continue in the direction she set forth on Come Escape With Me, a 2005 release which reached top 10 status on the Jazzweek radio airplay charts (two tracks preview her next project, a suite for nonet). Throughout the entire album Amina's measured, graceful, touching pianism and cooly-controlled ensemble writing demonstrate commitment and ease with a jazz idiom.
Amina is stylistically wide-ranging, unwilling to be pinned down, but most of her compositions on her album Above the Clouds (2008) continue in the direction she set forth on Come Escape With Me, a 2005 release which reached top 10 status on the Jazzweek radio airplay charts (two tracks preview her next project, a suite for nonet). Throughout the entire album Amina's measured, graceful, touching pianism and cooly-controlled ensemble writing demonstrate commitment and ease with a jazz idiom.
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