Amina Figarova Group performs “TWELVE”

Featuring Amina Figarova/Piano, Wayne Escoffery/Tenor Sax, Bart Platteau/Flutes, Martin Wind/Bass and Jason Brown/Drums

http://www.aminafigarova.com/ Composer and pianist Amina Figarova’s 12th album, titled Twelve celebrates jazz as an international musical form and New York City as a place where jazz gypsies feel most at home.  Figarova wrote a suite of songs for sextet, after moving with her husband and musical partner, flutist Bart Platteau, to NYC from their longtime European base, Twelve is suffused with the heightened expectations, sense of adventure and fresh perceptions that voluntary emigrés enjoy, as well as the confidence, creative energies and nuanced fulfillment that artists gain from being in the right place at the right time.

Amina hails from Baku, Azerbaijan, Bart is from Belgium, and together they are citizens of the world. They’ve toured extensively, developing a tight-knit ensemble that, concentrates on all-original repertoire for almost 18 years. The Amina Figarova Sextet has triumphed at the main stage of the Newport Jazz Festival, been invited repeatedly to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, won critical and audience acclaim in Chicago, Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam — and of course New York. In 2010 they decided to make the daring, big move to the States, and they couldn’t be happier.

The value of sustaining such a seasoned and sensitive sextet, becomes obvious when music of such as Figarova’s is heard.  Firmly grounded, the Amina Figarova Sextet will keep moving, growing, evolving, engaging with listeners who are moved, perhaps, to eagerly anticipate “Thirteen”.