SOURCE: ST. LOUIS JAZZ NOTES BY DEAN MINDERMAN, Published: 2013-02-20
There's jazz and creative music happening early and often throughout this week in St. Louis, and so to help make sure that you don't miss anything, here's a special early edition of the weekly highlights post:
Tonight, trombonist Jim Pugh is in town for a free concert at at Maryville University presented by the St. Louis Low Brass Collective. Pugh is best known for his work with Woody Herman and Chick Corea, but also has been a top studio trombonist recording for film soundtracks, pop music sessions, and much more. The concert will feature Pugh backed by ten local jazz trombonists, a rhythm section, and the entire trombone section of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Meanwhile, back downtown, drummer Jeremy Haynes and the Rhythm Is Life band will play atLola. Haynes, a St. Louis native who's been part of five Grammy winning gospel recordings, is performing in support of the release of his first instrumental album Prodigal Son 2K.
Also tonight, Three Central gives a free concert at the St. Louis Public Library main branch downtown; and the Tommy Halloran Quintet plays for Lindy Hop St. Louis' weekly swing dance atGrandel Theatre.
Tomorrow night, the Route 66 Jazz Orchestra brings their big band sound to West County at theSky Music Lounge in Ballwin; Sarah Jane and the Blue Notes perform at the Feasting Fox; and the Ann Dueren Trio is at Frontenac Grill.
On Thursday, pianist Amina Figarova (pictured) and her group will perform in a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University. Figarova's skills at writing for small ensembles prompted Jazz Times to call her “among the most important composers to come into jazz in the new millennium." For more about her, and some vidfeo samples of her group in action, see this post from Saturday.
Also on Thursday, singer Erin Bode is at Crave coffee house.
Read more: http://news.allaboutjazz.com/news.php?id=102774#.USiE8qXhEhQ
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Jim Pugh, Jeremy Haynes, Amina Figarova, Jazz St. Louis Gala, Jeff Coffin, Chris Botti, Dan Thomas, and More
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Jazz, Pianist and Composer Amina Figarova Premieres "SKETCHES" On U.S. Tour
“… Figarova is among the most important composers to come into jazz in the new millennium..." — Thomas Conrad, JazzTimes
"...Amina Figarova boasts a graceful and erudite piano style, but her second instrument is her band….A first rate jazz pianist, Amina Figarova is staking out her ground as a top level composer-arranger...” — Dan McClenaghan, All About Jazz.
Monday August 9, 2010:
Dizzy's Coca Cola Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
www.jalc.org <http://www.jalc.org/
Shows at 7.30 PM and 9.30 PM
Amina Figarova - piano
Bart Platteau – flutes
Marc Mommaas – tenorsax
Ernie Hammes – trumpet
Jeroen Vierdag – bass
Chris “Buckshot” Strik - drums
From: Jazz Promo Services - http://www.jazzpromoservices.com/
Photo: jazzink.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Amina Figarova sextet Live in Amsterdam
"When the lights go down" is the part of "September Suite"-tribute to 9/11,tribute to mourning.Amina figarova-piano,Wiro Mahieu-bass,Chris"Buckshot" Strik-drums,Nico Schepers-trumpet,Bart Platteau-flutes,Kurt van Herck-tenor saxophone.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Amina Figarova is without doubt one of the most productive jazz composers....
Amina Figarova is without doubt one of the most productive jazz composers and talented jazz piano players from Europe. Amina started playing piano and composing at a very early age. She studied as a classical concert pianist at the Baku Conservatory, jazz performance at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Amina made her recording debut with Attraction in 1994, and was accepted into the prestigious Thelonious Monk Jazz Colony in Aspen, Colorado in 1998.With her husband multi-flutist Bart Platteau central to the three horn frontline Ms. Figarova arranges for her sextet, she plays compelling, artful and heartfelt changes on the urbane, bluesy lyricism originally developed by the likes of Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, et al. Though the recipient of rigorous Russian musical education in the classics, Amina has come to identify her sound with these master mainstream-progressives of recent jazz decades after having explored aspects of the avant garde (in September Suite, her shocked and sad response to terrorists attacks on American soil) and multi-keyboard fusion-oriented funk (on Another Me).
On the CD Above the Clouds (Munich Records) one of the most cosmopolitan and accomplished artists in jazz today proves that the music is a natural not a national language. Amina Figarova, the globe-trotting Azerbaijan-born, Rotterdam-based composer-pianist-bandleader with more than a dozen recordings to her credit has created a new album of original songs that refresh the classic post-bop idiom established by labels such as Blue Note, Prestige and Impulse! during the 1950s and 1960s. Far from derivative or concept-conscious, though, Above the Clouds unfolds as a personal, vividly colored, confidently-propelled contemporary soundtrack, satisfying in and of itself.
Amina is stylistically wide-ranging, unwilling to be pinned down, but most of her compositions on Above the Clouds continue in the direction she set forth on Come Escape With Me, a 2005 release which reached top 10 status on the Jazzweek radio airplay charts (two tracks preview her next project, a suite for nonet). Throughout the entire album Amina's measured, graceful, touching pianism and cooly-controlled ensemble writing demonstrate commitment and ease with a jazz idiom.
Amina Figarova performs with her own group at many jazz festivals and jazz clubs around the world: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Germany, France, UK, Denmark, Israel, Bahrain, United Arabs Emirates, Mexico, USA, Canada, Brasil, Azerbaijan, Indonesia, South Africa, Tunisia, Dutch Antilles, Croatia, Italy, etc…
Program
March 10 Amina Figarova Sextet Jazzstandard, New York, New York http://www.jazzstandard.net/
March 11, 12, 13, 14 Amina Figarova Sextet The Jazzshowcase, Chicago, IL http://www.jazzshowcase.com/
March 16 Amina Figarova Sextet Victoria Jazz Society, Victoria, BC, Canada http://www.jazzvictoria.ca/
March 20 Amina Figarova Sextet Snug Harbor Jazzclub, New Orleans, Louissiana http://www.snugjazz.com/
The USA tour has been made possible with the help of the "Nederlands Fonds voor de Podiumkunsten+"
April 2 Amina Figarova Sextet De Tobbe, Voorburg, NL CD "Sketches" release concertsApril 17 Amina Figarova Sextet Bimhuis, Amsterdam, NL
April 18 Amina Figarova Sextet Lantaren-Venster Rotterdam, NL
April 22, 23 Amina Figarova Sextet Inoui, Redange sur Attert, Luxembourg
"When the lights go down" is the part of "September Suite"-tribute to 9/11,tribute to mourning.
Amina figarova-piano,Wiro Mahieu-bass,
Chris"Buckshot" Strik-drums,
Nico Schepers-trumpet,
Bart Platteau-flutes,
Kurt van Herck-tenor saxophone.
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