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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
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. Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh's music is the natural, easy fusion of two fundamental elements: Jazz, the modern sound of freedom, and Mugam, the ancient music of wisdom and love. "The Rainbow has many colors. The Soul, too, has many different shades." Unquestionably, these words can applied equally well to the Artist herself, and to the Way she views the world around her.
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Echo PrizeAward for CD "Always"
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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Body and Soul and Mugam!
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... 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 ...
read moreAziza Mustafa Zadeh - Baku Jazz Festival 2007
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All About Jazz
By Turan Mamedaliyeva The second day of the Festival gave the Baku audience the long-awaited surprise. Various Bakunians gathered at 21.00 at Opera and Ballet Theatre. Filled parterre and overloaded amphitheatre. Applauses - calls. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, our dear Aziza, did not keep the audience waiting for a long time. After presenter R. Azeri's warm greetings and after his acknowledgments (I am nervous, can not believe that this moment has come) there was a pause - the pause of waiting ...
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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - The Princess of Jazz
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All About Jazz
By Jean-Claude Elias AMMAN - Jazz, with its infinite palette, can surprise the most blas listener. Aziza Mustafa Zadeh hails from Baku, Azerbaijan, plays an innovative form of jazz and is beyond any doubt one of the most inventive artists alive. I was recently given two of her CDs by a friend in music. The impact on me was the equivalent of an electroshock, an immense surprise - in many a way I found the discs to be superlative, exceptional ...
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The New CD of Aziza Mustafa Zadeh "Contrasts 2 Opera Jazz"
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All About Jazz
The new CD of Azerbaijani jazz pianist-singer-composer Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Contrasts 2 Opera Jazz (2007).
Recorded at the Jazziza Records in December 2006/January 2007. Mastered at the Bauer Studio in February 2007. Take an abundance of Liszt, a little Shumann, add some Ravel and Rimskiy-Korsakow and just a little more Bach.
As if that was not enough contrast already, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh mixes in Jazz - a lot of Jazz - and Mugam music from her Azerbaijani hometown of Baku. ...
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Pianist Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Releases "Contrasts"
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All About Jazz
The new CD of jazz pianist-singer-composer Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Contrasts (2006). Recorded at the Jazziza Records Studio in october-november 2005. Mixed and edited at the Bauer Studios.
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - a sketch
Singing, playing. Still singing? My hands and my voice are fighting like a married couple, they are jealous of each other". Says Aziza mustafa Zadeh. And sometimes she lets both meet each other forcefully. Dancing Bolero with passionate piano explosions and an unleashed powerful voice she then ...
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