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| 1. | Come Escape With Me
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| 2. | Hot on the Trail
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| 3. | Flight of Fancy
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| 4. | Mr. T.M.
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| 5. | Dancing in the Wind
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| 6. | Buckshot Blues
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| 7. | Zealot
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| 8. | Awakening
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| 9. | Blues for Wiro
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| 10. | Destiny
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| 11. | Market Place
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| 12. | Reaching Out to You
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Jazz
Amina Figarova - Arranger, Piano, Producer
Bart Platteau - Executive Producer, Flute, Producer, Wood Flute
Chris Strik - Drums
Kurt Van Herck - Sax (Tenor)
Tom Beek - Sax (Alto), Sax (Soprano)
Wiro Mahieu - Bass (Acoustic)
* Job Zomer - Executive Producer
* Paul Pouwer - Engineer, Mastering, Mixing
Originally from Baku, Azerbaijan, but now living in the Netherlands, pianist and composer Amina Figarova studied classical piano and began writing music as a child. She switched to jazz as a young adult, and has blossomed as both a player and a writer in the years since. This is her third release as leader of an accomplished septet that includes top players from the Netherlands and Belgium (among them her husband, the excellent jazz flutist Bart Platteau). The 12 compositions featured on Come Escape with Me are all originals, and most of them are written in a discursive but elegant style, characterized by chord progressions that sprawl impressionistically while the rhythm section pushes them firmly from below. "Hot on the Trail" and the gorgeous title track are both good examples of those general tendencies, but there are exceptions -- such as the delightful "Buckshot Blues," which sounds for all the world as if it had been written by Ray Charles during a vacation in New Orleans. The playing is top-notch throughout, with particular kudos going to Platteau, Figarova and alto saxophonist Tom Beek. Very, very nice.
--- Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Amina Figarova
Active Decades: '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Post-Bop
Amina Figarova was born in 1966 in a most unlikely place for a jazz musician, Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan on the Russian side of the Iron Curtain. Her parents encouraged her at the tender age of two years old to pursue playing the piano. As a classically trained musician, Figarova was influenced by the usual masters as Johann Sebastian Bach, Serge Rachmaninioff and Claude Debussy, and played scores of Alexander Scriabin. But her mother and father loved jazz, and she was fortunate to be able to hear albums by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, items that were in short supply in Azerbaijan. She attended the Baku Conservatory, but moved to jazz studies in the Netherlands at the Rotterdam Conservatory, and eventually to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. These academic institutions fortified her skills as a player, but also inspired her blooming talent as a composer of original modern jazz music. Her writing was naturally inclined to reflect the performers she admired like Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and Michel Petrucciani. In 1994 she recorded a debut CD of all original material, titled "Attraction" and proved adept at solo piano concerts. But restless to learn more, she attended the Thelonious Monk Jazz Colony summer camp in Aspen, Colorado 1998, and by 1999 formed her first large ensemble. In the spring of 2000, Figarova was an artist in residence with Dmitri Matheny in the San Francisco bay area, and headed back to Rotterdam, where she has resided for the decade of the 2000's. She has worked with the likes of James Moody, Larry Coryell, Winard Harper, Nathan Davis, Denise Jannah, Carolyn Breuer, Ruth Davies, Toots Thielemans, Claudio Roditi, Mark Mommas, Hein Van De Geyn, Sami Kaneda, and New Orleans musicians - vocalist Kim Prevost and guitarist Bill Solley. As an arranger, she has collaborated with jazz vocalists Jackie Ryan and Lenora Zenzali Helm. In Brooklyn, staying in the apartment of friends while sleeping on September 11, 2001, Figarova was approximate to the crumbling World Trade Center towers, and wrote the poignant "September Suite" in tribute to the people that were killed. Her regular working band includes Holland based musicians as flute player Bart Platteau, saxophonists Tom Beek and Kurt Van Herck, trumpeters Marcel Reys, Nico Schepers or Ernie Hammes, bassist Wiro Mahieu and drummer Chris Strik. She is included on the CD collection of musicians from Azerbaijan, Departure Point: Baku Compilation.
--- Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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