Jazz Articles about Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam!

by Raul d'Gama Rose
March 6, 2004

To go back to the very beginning, to go back to a Sephardic ancestry, there is the soul – voluptuous in connotation. It is, at once, the invisible shadow of the body – with a sense of self and person, reaching out to its life in the spirit-world. It is desire, appetite, emotion and passion. So... spirit and emotion! Small wonder why in calo, the ancient Romany-Flamenco-Gypsy language, born in the blazing heat of the sun, we learn the word ...