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| 1. | Numb
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| 2. | Emptyness
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| 3. | Denial
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| 4. | Photo Album
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| 5. | Rage
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| 6. | Trying to Focus
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| 7. | When the Lights Goes Down
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| 8. | Dawn
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| 9. | For Laura
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| 10. | Numb [*]
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Jazz / Post-Bop
Recorded on November 1 & 2, 2004 at Power Sound Studio, Amsterdam
Amina Figarova - piano
Bart Platteau - flute, Bb-flute, alto flute, bass flute
Nico Schepers - trumpet, fluegelhorn
Kurt van Herck - tenor saxophone
Wiro Mahieu - acoustic bass
Chris Strik - drums
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Paul Pouwer at Power Sound Studio, Amsterdam
Produced by Amina Figarova & Bart Platteau
Executive producers: Job Zomer & Bart Platteau
Pianist and composer Amina Figarova was asleep in a Brooklyn apartment belonging to friends when the events of September 11, 2001 unfolded. As she moved about the city after the destruction of the World Trade Center, and later returned home to Rotterdam, a powerful documentary inspired her to create September Suite. The moody introduction, "Numb," is tinged with sadness; in it she utilizes her instrument to depict the carnage and the chaos of the crowds trying to get away or track down missing relatives. "Emptyness" has the cadence of a funeral march, blending Nico Schepers' mournfully voiced trumpet with Bart Platteau's flute. She opens her haunting "Photo Album" with unaccompanied piano, and the full sextet joins her as she depicts the survivors attempting to connect with their lost loved ones. Amina Figarova's September Suite packs an emotional punch, yet never repels the listener; instead, this fascinating work invites one to return to it again and again in order to fully appreciate its message. ~ Ken Dryden, 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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