Amina Figerova Sextet at The Side Door Jazz Club

Saturday January 31st – 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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Saturday January 31st – 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.

Amina's pieces strike a perfect tone, employing genuinely beautiful harmonization, to capture fleeting thoughts that accompany those precious moments when the puzzling jostle of daily existence comes into unexpected but deeply satisfying sync. For more artist details: www.aminafigarova.com

Saturday January 31st – Doors 7:30pm, Show 8:30pm 860-434-0886 www.thesidedoorjazz.com
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