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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

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Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh born in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. Yet despite a mysterious name that could be straight out of Arabian Nights, this pianist & singer does not regard herself as the exotic product of a distant land. Since she was born, music has been an integral part of her life. Aziza's Father - Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh (1940-1979) is a legendary founder of Mugam-Jazz, composer & pianist, who played an important role in making Jazz acceptable in Soviet Union. Her Mother Eliza Mustafa-Zadeh is trained and famous singer of traditional Azerbaijani music and has rarely left her daughter's side during the constant rise of fame within last decade

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Article: Profile

Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh: Azerbaijan's Jazz Pioneer

Read "Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh:  Azerbaijan's Jazz Pioneer" reviewed by Mehman N Mamedov


March 16, 2025, would mark the 85th birthday of one of the most outstanding jazz composers and performers, Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh. He can be considered a pioneer of ethno-jazz in the Soviet Union and, on a global scale, a unique and virtuoso jazz performer and composer who fused ancient Eastern musical traditions with Western music.

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Generations

Label: Jazziza Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Mimi, Lullaby, Sieben Kreisel, Netter Junge, Despite All, September Ballade, New Baku, Theatre of Marionettes, Naeje Sevim, Prelude, Concert No 2, Native Landscape

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Always

Label: Ghost Note Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Always; Heartbeat; Crying Earth; A.J.D.; Yandi Ganim Daha; I Don't Know; Vagif; Marriage Suite; Insult; Kaukas Mountains; Dangerous Piece.

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Vagif Mustafa Zadeh Live

Label: Jazziza Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Blues; Blue Daniel; Expromt; Caspian Sea; Summer In Baku; The Man I Love; Take A-Train.

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Ralf Krebs

Read "Take Five with Ralf Krebs" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Ralf Krebs:The native Berliner began his musical career at the age of 11, taking lessons in drumming and latin percussion. He was much in demand as a drummer and percussionist in numerous local bands and counted amongst his influences Salsa, Fusion and the Jazz Rock of the 70s and 80s.His love ...

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Contrasts II - Opera Jazz

Label: Jazziza Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Introduction; Mozart Jazz Ballade; Guarding Dreams; The Queen Of The Night; Gothic Jazz; Red In Black; If You Love Me; Bachmania; Do Not Tell Me; One Day, Perhaps; Lonely Dolphine; Barabashka; Peace, Peace, My God; Two Brothers.

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Contrasts

Label: Jazziza Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Singing Nature; Night Life In Georgien; Stars Dance; Dreaming Sheherezadeh; Bachuana; Last Day of Chopin; Past Of Future; Contrasts; Egocetric Bummel-Bee; Jazzerei In Traeumerei; Bolero; The Way To The Palace; The Mirror Of The Miracles; The Nightingale & The Rose, Cloud Evening.

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam!

Read "Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam!" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


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... ...

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Shamans

Label: Universal/Decca
Released: 2002


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