Vagif Mustafazadeh

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March 02:30 Tools
from baku 04:09 Tools
Zibeyde 02:47 Tools
Aziza 04:04 Tools
Rhythm 03:16 Tools
Ezize 04:11 Tools
Dushunce 03:58 Tools
The Caucasus 04:21 Tools
In Spring 05:23 Tools
Suddenly 03:00 Tools
Night Prelude 00:00 Tools
Fantaziya (Fantasy) 04:07 Tools
Sevil 03:11 Tools
Waiting For Aziza 00:00 Tools
Keeping Up With Time 00:00 Tools
Aman ovchu 00:00 Tools
Mugham 00:00 Tools
In Moscow 00:00 Tools
Fantaziya 04:07 Tools
At The Rehearsal 00:00 Tools
On The 18th Of Month 00:00 Tools
Bayati Shiraz 03:23 Tools
Opportunities 00:00 Tools
Witnessed 00:00 Tools
Willpower 00:00 Tools
Morning 00:00 Tools
Ay Peri 00:00 Tools
I Work With Pleasure 00:00 Tools
"Bayati Shiraz" 00:00 Tools
Character - No. 1 00:00 Tools
Meeting In Tbilisi 00:00 Tools
Bemsha swing 00:00 Tools
Autumn Leaves 00:00 Tools
Seventy-Six 00:00 Tools
Melodiya 00:00 Tools
Gelmedi 00:00 Tools
Solitude 02:59 Tools
Keys, Brooms, Strings 00:00 Tools
Riga In June 00:00 Tools
Tchaikovsky's Primrose (1952, at age 12) 00:00 Tools
Ballad 00:00 Tools
Zibeyda 00:00 Tools
Performing with Pleasure 00:00 Tools
Improvizasiya 00:00 Tools
The Gift 00:00 Tools
Composition - No.1 00:00 Tools
Keys, Brushes, Strings 00:00 Tools
Improvisation (Based on Gara Garayev's Don Quixote) 00:00 Tools
Qizil Uzuk 00:00 Tools
Only six squares 00:00 Tools
In Search Of 03:05 Tools
Baki geceleri 00:00 Tools
Your Beauty Won't Last Forever 00:00 Tools
The Folk (With Sevil Vocal Quartet) 00:00 Tools
My Friends and I 00:00 Tools
Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Try Not To Make A Mistake 00:00 Tools
My Feelings Tell Me That... 00:00 Tools
Composition - No.3 00:00 Tools
Identity 00:00 Tools
Shirvanshakh's Palace 00:00 Tools
Persistence 00:00 Tools
Impromptu 00:00 Tools
When The Moon Appears 00:00 Tools
Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Borjomi Park 00:00 Tools
At The Composer's Union 00:00 Tools
Indigenous Nature 00:00 Tools
Composition - No.2 00:00 Tools
Oil Rocks 00:00 Tools
Quite Alone 00:00 Tools
Only Six Bars 00:00 Tools
Caucasian Scenes 00:00 Tools
Today 00:00 Tools
At Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Indigenous Melodies 00:00 Tools
Soul in Love (by Tofiq Bakikhanov) 00:00 Tools
Entered The Garden 00:00 Tools
Mugham (by Ramiz Mirishli) 00:00 Tools
You Can't Escape Your Destiny 00:00 Tools
Your Beauty Won't Last Forever - No.2 (by Tofiq Guliyev) 00:00 Tools
Mugham: Bayati-Shiraz (with Sevil Vocal Quartet) 00:00 Tools
Seventy Six 00:00 Tools
Paraphrase (by Platon Mayboroda) 00:00 Tools
Mugham (based on Azerbaijani Folksong Black Eyebrow Liner) 00:00 Tools
Improvisation 00:00 Tools
Try Not To Make A Mistake - No.2 00:00 Tools
Effort ( Zivar Aliyeva) 00:00 Tools
Words Can't Say 00:00 Tools
Sad Daniel (based on F. Rossolino) 00:00 Tools
Do Not Go Wrong 00:00 Tools
Reflection (by M. Ahmadova) 00:00 Tools
Hot Sun In Baku (Tamaz Kurashvili) 00:00 Tools
Favourite Melodies 00:00 Tools
Character - No.2 00:00 Tools
Black Eyebrow Liner - No.4 00:00 Tools
Concerto No. 2 00:00 Tools
The Folk 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart with Sevil Vocal Quartet (by Rauf Hajiyev) 00:00 Tools
Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Samarkand Ormamentation 00:00 Tools
Composition - No.4 00:00 Tools
Black Eyebrow Liner - No.1 (Azerbaijani Folk Song) 00:00 Tools
Concerto - No.2 00:00 Tools
My Feelings Tell Me That 00:00 Tools
Golden Ring (by Tofiq Guliyev) 00:00 Tools
Folksong: Black Eyebrow Liner - No.2 (with Sevil Vocal Quartet) 00:00 Tools
Fantazia 00:00 Tools
Night Baku (Azeri Music) 05:35 Tools
Paraphrase on a P. Mayboroda's Song "Rushnichok" 00:00 Tools
Primrose by Tchaikovsky 00:00 Tools
Soul in Love 00:00 Tools
Medley (by Sayid Rustamov and Tofiq Gulieyv) 00:00 Tools
Motherland Nature 00:00 Tools
Night Baku 00:00 Tools
Me and My Friends 00:00 Tools
Golden Ring 00:00 Tools
Melodiya (Melody) 00:00 Tools
Gift 00:00 Tools
Reflection 00:00 Tools
Mugam 00:00 Tools
Native Intonation 00:00 Tools
Potpourri 00:00 Tools
Dushunce (Thought) 00:00 Tools
Ay peri (Hey, Angel) 00:00 Tools
Baku Nights 00:00 Tools
Paraphrase 00:00 Tools
Qizil Uzuk (Golden Ring) 00:00 Tools
Aman Ovchu (Aman Hunter) 00:00 Tools
Character 00:00 Tools
03-From Baku 00:00 Tools
Düşüncə 00:00 Tools
Tənhalıq (Solitude) 00:00 Tools
02-Rythm 00:00 Tools
Roads 00:00 Tools
The Bride Comes to Our House 00:00 Tools
Vagifs Confession 00:00 Tools
Alone 00:00 Tools
Yollar(The Roads) 00:00 Tools
Sad Daniel 00:00 Tools
01-Primrose by Tchaikovsky 00:00 Tools
Favorite Melodies 00:00 Tools
Dusunce 00:00 Tools
A Naughty Girl 00:00 Tools
We Are Building a Road 00:00 Tools
Piece 00:00 Tools
06-Night prelude 00:00 Tools
04-Keeping up with time 00:00 Tools
You Are in My Heart 00:00 Tools
Musical Break (Suite) 00:00 Tools
Paraphrase on a Platon Mayboroda's Song "Rushnichok" - Live 00:00 Tools
05-Character-no.1 00:00 Tools
07-In Moscow 00:00 Tools
Sun 00:00 Tools
Melody 00:00 Tools
Suite - Fantasia 00:00 Tools
Mugham: Bayati-Shiraz 00:00 Tools
08-At the rehearsal 00:00 Tools
Hot Sun In Baku 00:00 Tools
15-Suddenly 00:00 Tools
Composition No. 2 00:00 Tools
Don't Be Proud 00:00 Tools
Birthday 00:00 Tools
Mother 00:00 Tools
Dushunceler 00:00 Tools
09-March 00:00 Tools
Tallinn in May 00:00 Tools
Jazz Suite 00:00 Tools
Suite - Ballade 00:00 Tools
16-Composition-no.1 00:00 Tools
My Friends and Me 00:00 Tools
Baku Lights 00:00 Tools
Waltz (from 'Seven Beauties' ballet) 00:00 Tools
Chernobrovaya 00:00 Tools
10-On the 18th of the month 00:00 Tools
Black Eyebrow Liner - No.1 00:00 Tools
The Dark Browed Girl 00:00 Tools
Effort 00:00 Tools
Folksong: Black Eyebrow Liner - No.2 00:00 Tools
A Partridge 00:00 Tools
Favorite intonation 00:00 Tools
The appearance of the moon 00:00 Tools
A Present 00:00 Tools
The Man I Love 00:00 Tools
14-Morning 00:00 Tools
13-Meeting in Tblisi 00:00 Tools
17-Composition-no.2 00:00 Tools
Night Baku (Ronfoller & Ahmed Suleymanov Media FM Edit) 00:00 Tools
Азиза 00:00 Tools
Кавказ 00:00 Tools
Native Intonation - Live 00:00 Tools
11-Sevil 00:00 Tools
The hottest day in Baku 00:00 Tools
Opavshie leaves 00:00 Tools
Yollar (Sevil Vocal Quartet) 00:00 Tools
12-Opportunities 00:00 Tools
Improvizasiya (Improvisation) 00:00 Tools
Dushunja 00:00 Tools
Lirika 00:00 Tools
Blue Daniel 00:00 Tools
Бакинец 00:00 Tools
Gift - Live 00:00 Tools
Rythm 00:00 Tools
Suite - Overture 00:00 Tools
Native Tunes 00:00 Tools
I entered the garden for grapes 00:00 Tools
In the garden 00:00 Tools
Natue Native Land 00:00 Tools
Samarkand Ornamentation 00:00 Tools
Perseverance 00:00 Tools
Ритм 00:00 Tools
Aman Ovçu 00:00 Tools
На рассвете 00:00 Tools
Мугам 00:00 Tools
Strength of will 00:00 Tools
Only one 00:00 Tools
The desire 00:00 Tools
02-Effort 00:00 Tools
Mugham - Bayati-Shiraz 00:00 Tools
02-Seventy-six 00:00 Tools
Клавиши, щетки, струны 00:00 Tools
The Same 00:00 Tools
Весной 00:00 Tools
Tenhaliq 00:00 Tools
Meeting in Tblisi 00:00 Tools
Try to not make a Mistake 00:00 Tools
Совсем один 00:00 Tools
01-I Work With Pleasure 00:00 Tools
Gəlmədi 00:00 Tools
03-I entered the garden for grapes 00:00 Tools
Всего шесть тактов 00:00 Tools
Dushunce (Раздумье) 00:00 Tools
Folksong - Black eyebrow liner No. 1 00:00 Tools
Ночной прелюд 00:00 Tools
04-Improvisation 00:00 Tools
Suggested Sense 00:00 Tools
01-Waiting for Aziza 00:00 Tools
07-Identity 00:00 Tools
08-Try not to make a mistake-no.2 00:00 Tools
01-Persistence 00:00 Tools
M. Ahmadova Reflection 00:00 Tools
Aman Ovcu 00:00 Tools
Qızıl üzük 00:00 Tools
Bakili 00:00 Tools
06-Sad Daniel 00:00 Tools
Март месяц 00:00 Tools
03-My friends and I 00:00 Tools
Composition-no.1 00:00 Tools
Baki gecələri (improvisation) 00:00 Tools
Concert №2 00:00 Tools
Əzizə 00:00 Tools
ИМПРОВИЗАЦИЯ 00:00 Tools
Composition No. 3 00:00 Tools
Pictures Of The Caucasia 00:00 Tools
Composition-no.2 00:00 Tools
Folksong: Black Eyebrow Liner No. 3 00:00 Tools
02-Solitude 00:00 Tools
Ay Pəri 00:00 Tools
07-Autumn leaves 00:00 Tools
Севиль 00:00 Tools
Character-no.1 00:00 Tools
Природа родного края 00:00 Tools
Сила воли 00:00 Tools
В ожидании Азизы 00:00 Tools
04-Folksong:Black eyebrow liner-no.3 00:00 Tools
06-Concerto-no.2 00:00 Tools
05-Your beauty won't last forever-no.2 00:00 Tools
03-Riga in June 00:00 Tools
08-Bemsha swing 00:00 Tools
06-My feelings tell me that... 00:00 Tools
Azize 00:00 Tools
Keys,brooms,strings 00:00 Tools
11-Shirvanshahs' Palace 00:00 Tools
При свидетелях 00:00 Tools
Düsünce 00:00 Tools
Смотри, не ошибись 00:00 Tools
07-When the moon appears 00:00 Tools
09-Indigenous nature 00:00 Tools
10-Character-no.2 00:00 Tools
04-Mugham 00:00 Tools
Folksong - Black eyebrow liner No. 2 00:00 Tools
Семьдесят шесть 00:00 Tools
Hatirələr (воспоминания) 00:00 Tools
Играю с удовольствием 00:00 Tools
Axtarmada 00:00 Tools
08-Willpower 00:00 Tools
Your beauty won't last forever-no.2 00:00 Tools
The Song About The Embroidered Towel 00:00 Tools
Try not to make a mistake No. 1 00:00 Tools
Baki gecalari 00:00 Tools
10-Samarkand ornamentation 00:00 Tools
The Song about the Embroidered Towel. Paraphrase on the theme by P. Mayboroda 00:00 Tools
Evimize gelin gelir 00:00 Tools
Lyrical Mood 00:00 Tools
Неожиданно… 00:00 Tools
05-Hot sun in Baku 00:00 Tools
Словами не скажешь 00:00 Tools
Чувство подсказывает 00:00 Tools
Я и мои друзья 00:00 Tools
09-Oil rocks 00:00 Tools
11-Composition-no.4 00:00 Tools
09-Caucasian scenes 00:00 Tools
05-Favorite melodies 00:00 Tools
13-You can't escape your destiny 00:00 Tools
Character-no.2 00:00 Tools
Composition-no.4 00:00 Tools
Try not to make a mistake-no.2 00:00 Tools
Your Beauty Won't Last Forever No. 2 00:00 Tools
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Vagif Mustafa Zadeh was an Azeri jazz pianist and composer, famous for fusing jazz and traditional Azeri folk music known as mugam. (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 Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan 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). Azerbaijan fell under control of the Soviets in 1920, 20 years before Vagif was born. Five years after his birth and after World War II, Stalin said that jazz was "the music of capitalists" and had it banned throughout the entire Soviet Union. (Adolf Hitler had done the same in Germany in 1933, stating that it was "the music of the blacks".) Even music played on the saxophone was outlawed. The young Vagif, however, apparently cared little for the Soviets and their bans. As a child, he would listen to jazz on BBC broadcasts and sing Meykhana rhythmic poetry, which had also been banned, with friends. After listening on the radio, he and his friend Vagif Samadoglu would attempt to recreate the music on the piano. After Stalin's death in 1953, the ban on Jazz was gradually lifted. Gradually, however, is a key word. Even in 1957, Vagif was unable to play jazz compositions in concert. As such, he resorted to playing privately for friends or in clubs. He had an intense passion for improvisational jazz, but found something lacking. Eventually, he began to fuse jazz with traditional Azeri music: Mugam. By the early 1960s, people were finally becoming more comfortable with jazz and Vagif 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." Vagif attended Baku State Musical Technical School, from which he graduated in 1963, ten years after the Soviet ban on jazz was lifted, after having been in effect for almost a decade. 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.