Amina Figarova at The Side Door Jazz Club

AMINA FIGARVA SEXTET– Saturday July 18 – Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:30pm – 860-434-0886* www.thesidedoorjazz.com

Composer and pianist Amina Figarova's 12th album, titled ‘Twelve’ - her debut release on the renowned independent German label, In + Out - celebrates jazz as an international music and New York City as a locale where jazz gypsies may feel most at home. ‘Twelve’ is suffused with heightened expectations, sense of adventure and fresh perceptions, as well as the confidence, creative energies and nuanced fulfillment that artists gain from being in the right place at the right time....

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AMINA FIGARVA SEXTET– Saturday July 18 – Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:30pm – 860-434-0886* www.thesidedoorjazz.com

Composer and pianist Amina Figarova's 12th album, titled ‘Twelve’ - her debut release on the renowned independent German label, In + Out - celebrates jazz as an international music and New York City as a locale where jazz gypsies may feel most at home. ‘Twelve’ is suffused with heightened expectations, sense of adventure and fresh perceptions, as well as the confidence, creative energies and nuanced fulfillment that artists gain from being in the right place at the right time.

She has toured extensively, developing a tight-knit ensemble that, despite inevitable personnel changes, has attained a distinctive and inimitable voice by concentrating on all-original repertoire for almost 18 years. During that period, having collaborated with musicians residing in both the U.S. and Europe and having built up a circuit of welcoming venues, 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.

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