Vagif Mustafa Zadeh

about

Vagif Mustafa Zadeh was an Azeri jazz pianist and composer, famous for fusing jazz and traditional Azeri folk music known as mugham. (His daughter Aziza Mustafa Zadeh now follows in his footsteps as a pianist, composer and singer in the jazz-mugam style.) He was born March 16, 1940 in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union and died of a heart-attack after a concert on December 17, 1979 in Tashkent, shortly before the birthdays of his wife Eliza (December 17) and daughter (December 19). Vagif attended Baku State Musical Technical School, from which he graduated in 1963. By the early 1960s he had started to gain a reputation even outside of Azerbaijan as a great jazz musician. In 1966, Willis Conover, conductor of the "Jazz Time" radio program, even went as far as to say, "Vagif Mustafa Zadeh is an extraordinary pianist. It is impossible to identify his equal. He is the most lyrical pianist I have ever known." He won first prize at the 8th International Music Festival for his performance of "Waiting for Aziza" in Monaco in 1978, but died the next year. He is also referred to as Vagif Mustafazade or Vagif Mustafa-zade. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

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Dushunce

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Sky Blue - Graham's Selection Summer 2016

Jazz Compositions

Джазовые композиции

Waiting for Aziza

Hands Over Hands

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Vagif Mustafazadeh in Kiev (Live)

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Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses in D Minor, Op. 54 - Villa-Lobos - Daetwyler - Kuliev - Hajiyev - Melikov - Dadashev - Mustafa Zadeh - Mamedov

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Vagif Mustafazadeh: Jazz Compositions

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One Day In Kyiv

Jazz Palette

With Love

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