Friday, March 29, 2019

NYC-based Jazz Pianist & Composer Amina Figarova

Welcome to a new edition of the Neon Jazz interview series with NYC-based Jazz Pianist & Composer Amina Figarova .. She opened up about the 2019 CD Road to the Sun - With this release of this album, she is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her band. .. She was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, and as a child studied to be a classical concert pianist. In 1998, she was invited along with her husband to the Thelonious Monk Institute's summer jazzcolony 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.

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