Amina Figarova Sextet at Jazz Standard

Amina Figarova Sextet

Rising Star Composer 2014 Downbeat Critics Poll

Amina Figavora’s commanding stylistic reach has stretched from the multi-keyboard fusion-oriented funk of Another Me (1998) to the avant-garde experimentation of September Suite (2005). This much- anticipated Jazz Standard appearance celebrates the release of the composer/pianist’s twelfth album, appropriately titled Twelve — her debut release on the renowned independent German label In + Out. Composed after moving with her husband and musical partner, flutist Bart Platteau, to Harlem, NY 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...

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Amina Figarova Sextet

Rising Star Composer 2014 Downbeat Critics Poll

Amina Figavora’s commanding stylistic reach has stretched from the multi-keyboard fusion-oriented funk of Another Me (1998) to the avant-garde experimentation of September Suite (2005). This much- anticipated Jazz Standard appearance celebrates the release of the composer/pianist’s twelfth album, appropriately titled Twelve — her debut release on the renowned independent German label In + Out. Composed after moving with her husband and musical partner, flutist Bart Platteau, to Harlem, NY 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. “This is a band that built its reputation playing original repertoire, each musician a powerful soloist in his or her own right; yet it is their signa­ture interplay that moves the Amina Figarova Sextet above and beyond the vast majority of large chamber ensembles in modern jazz and places the pianist among the top echelon of composer/bandleaders…” (Andrea Canter, JazzPolice.com)

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