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| 1. | Waiting for A...
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| 2. | Night Train
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| 3. | Rio Sue&
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| 4. | Interlude 1
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| 5. | Going Home
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| 6. | Sari (Sadness)
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| 7. | Interlude 2
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| 8. | Open to the World
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| 9. | Sunrise in Kyoto
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| 10. | Time for Something New
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| 11. | Interlude 3
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| 12. | Good Neighbors
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| 13. | The Little Things
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| 14. | O Boto Rosa
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| 15. | October 8
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| 16. | Interlude 4
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| 17. | Reggae Dance
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| 18. | Epilogue
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Amina Figarova - Liner Notes, Arranger, Portraits, Piano, Producer
Bart Platteau Executive Producer
Carolyn Breuer Sax (Soprano), Sax (Alto)
Chris Strik Drums
Denise Jannah Vocals, Guest Appearance
Jarmo Hoogendijk Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Job Zomer Portraits, Executive Producer
Kurt Van Herck Sax (Tenor)
Paul Pouwer Engineer, Mixing, Mastering
Sami Kaneda Vocals
Wiro Mahieu Bass
The train trip described by pianist Amina Figarova might be deemed an allegorical reference to one's journey through life and the myriad events, large and small, that readily come to mind at the end of the trip. This album is Azerbaijan native and Rotterdam resident Figarova's fourth album and, with the exception of some help with lyrics, is made up of her compositions. Each tune is one of several movements that make up the story of the train ride, with each event the track represents eloquently described in detail by Figarova in the liner notes. There are unplanned meetings with all sorts of fellow travelers, along with four musical interludes which represent stops the train makes throughout the journey, essentially to allow the protagonist of the story to catch her breath and smell the roses. All of these goings on are expressed by individual pianistic ventures by Figarova as well as some fine ensemble playing. There are also notable solos by Jarmo Hoogendijk and Carolyn Breuer on such tracks as "Rio Sueno (River of Dreams)," a lovely, flowing piece, as the name implies. Vocalist Denise Jannah is present on two tracks. She is appropriately poignant on "Sari (Sadness)," which deals with a young woman distraught over losing track of her lover. Here Hoogendijk's flugelhorn plays in sympathetic juxtaposition to Jannah's vocal. Not all the pieces are in slow motion. "Open to the World" has an upbeat, optimistic ring to it as it showcases Breuer's hard bop alto and good ensemble work. All in all, the music created by Figarova and friends is enchanting, if not all that substantial. But not everything needs to be a tour de force or a breakthrough to be enjoyed. Recommended. ~ Dave Nathan, 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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