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Pianist/Composer Amina Figarova Releases New CD ‘Blue Whisper’
Amina Figarova on tour from Oct 6 – 17 with her new CD ‘Blue Whisper’
Tue, Oct 6 - Sat, Oct 17 2015
Azerbaijan-born, globe-trotting composer and pianist Amina Figarova introduces ten colorful, compelling new compositions performed by her touring sextet plus guests on Blue Whisper, her 13th album since her 1994 debut Attraction. Check out the dates of her CD release tour HERE.
Figarova’s deeply personal, highly evocative responses to social turmoil, distinctive personalities she’s encountered and universal transitions of life inform the music on Blue Whisper. Moods range from the haunting beauty of the titular track “Blue Whisper,” as well as “Moonrise” and “Hewa” (featuring lyrics in Swahili by Sarah Elizabeth Charles) to the straight-ahead momentum of “Moving Forward,” “The Hustler” and “The Traveler,” to the sophisticated playfulness of “Pictures,” “Marians” and “Juno.” In “Hear My Voice,” over a martial beat and sorrowful, resolute horn choir, an eight- year-old girl earnestly urges an end to violence world-wide and, with laughter, a request to “Let kids be kids.”
About Amina Figarova
Amina Figarova was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical concert pianist. In the late 1980s she entered Rotterdam Conservatory to pursue jazz, coming to the United States in 1989 to complete her formal education at Boston’s Berklee College of Music (where she met Platteau, a fellow student from Belgium). In 1998 they were invited to the Thelonious Monk Institute’s summer jazz colony in Aspen, and after more than a decade of bookings in major U.S. jazz clubs, concert halls and festivals, the couple gained legal immigrant status in 2014. They currently live in Manhattan, and tour constantly.
Tour Dates
Oct 6 | Jazz Standard, New York, NY
Oct 7 | Jazz Standard, New York, NY
Oct 14 | Dazzle, Denver, CO
Oct 15 | Dakota Bar, Minneapolis, MN
Oct 17 | We Always Swing, Columbia, MO