Results for "AmFi Records"

Suite For Africa

By Amina Figarova

Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dancing Clouds; Suite for Africa Part 1: Spirit Africa, Spirit Liberia; Suite for Africa Part 2: Fifteen as One; Suite for Africa Part 3: Forgotten Children; Faith, Is Her Name; Worldwide; Rain River; Paper Kites.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Dan McClenaghan
December 9, 2024

These recordings are 2024's best of the best. If the business of jazz is a rough go, the art of jazz thrives. Click on the album titles to see the full reviews. Bill AnschellImprobable Solutions Origin Records David FriesenThis Light Has ...

Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir: Suite For Africa

by Dan McClenaghan
July 12, 2024

Happenstance played a hand in two of pianist Amina Figarova's finest recordings. The first time around it was September Suite (Munich Records, 2005). Though based in the Netherlands at the time, Figarova was staying in New York City when the planes flew into the World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 2001. The music for the ...

Joy

By Amina Figarova

Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Joy; October Phantasy; Green Blues; Morning Dew; Ruby at Play; Suddenly Stars are Falling from the Sky; Road Ahead; Only Peace Liberates; Getting There; Muse.

Amina Figarova: Joy

by Dan McClenaghan
November 2, 2022

Pianist Amina Figarova released an album in 2005 that was about as far away from the theme of “joy" as could be. September Suite (Munich Records) explored the deadly events of September 11, 2001 (she was in New York at the time; she experienced it). It is an album that she called: “An Ode to Mourning ...

Amina Figarova

Born: December 2, 1966

Amina Figarova is without doubt one of the most productive jazz composers and talented jazz piano players from Europe. Now living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, born in Baku, Azerbaijan, 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 performs with her own group at many jazz festivals and jazz clubs around the world, such as The North Sea Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Capetown International Jazzfestival, Salvador Bahia Jazz Festival, Brasil, JakArt Festival, Indonesia, Yoshi's in Oakland, CA, Blue Note jazz club New York, and has given concerts in Israel, Europe, United Arabs Emirates, Mexico, USA, Azerbaijan, and many others. Recorded her first CD "Attraction" in 1994, a start of a wonderful career as pianist and composer, a CD with all compositions and arrangements of Amina, almost all the music on her CDs are composed by herself.

Road To The Sun

By Amina Figarova

Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Road To The Sun; All We Dance; Snow Mess; Explorations; Tumbling Prisms; Morning Mist; Fall Eclipse; On My Way; Cool Breeze; Circles; No Time For.

Amina Figarova: Road To The Sun

by Dan McClenaghan
March 18, 2019

Pianist Amina Figarova, born in Baku, Azerbaijin, experienced one of the United States' darkest days--the 9/11/2001 terrorist attack--up close, from the vantage point of a friend's apartment in Brooklyn. The experience resulted in the creation of perhaps the most poignant and heartfelt artistic representations of the event, Figarova's sextet recording September Suite (Munich Records, 2005), an ...

Firewind

By Amina Figarova

Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: 1. Firewind 2. Song for Gaby 3. Canal Street Blues 4. Girls of Thirteen 5. waltz for M 6. Scurry 7. I don't know 8. Lost and Lonely 9. In Walked Bud 10. Ev'rytime we say Goodbye 11. Past in Present