Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

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Aziza Mustafa Zadeh at the Baku Jazz Festival 2007

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (Azerbaijani Əzizə Mustafazadə ; outdated: Äzizä Mustafazadä , born  December 19, 1969 in Baku , Azerbaijani SSR ) is an Azerbaijani composer , pianist and singer , who is sometimes referred to as the Princess of Jazz . The musical style developed by Mustafa Zadeh is a mixture of jazz , scat singing , elements of classical piano music and traditional Azerbaijani improvisation music ( Mugam ).

Life

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh comes from a family of musicians. Her father, Vaqif Mustafazadə , was a pianist and composer and a leading exponent of Mugam Jazz in Azerbaijan. He died unexpectedly on December 16, 1979, at the age of 39, during a stage appearance, shortly before Aziza's tenth birthday. Her mother, Eliza Mustafazadə (née Elsa or Eliza Khanom ), is a classically trained singer who accompanied her husband on stage and in studio recordings and who is now Aziza's manager.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh performed publicly as a small child and accompanied her father. She received a classical musical education at the Baku Conservatory and took classical piano lessons. She developed a pronounced talent for improvisation and a positive relationship with jazz at an early age.

At the age of 17, Mustafa Zadeh won an award at the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition in Washington, DC ; In 1994 she received the Prize of the German Phono Academy and the Echo Prize from Sony .

She describes her scat singing as an accompaniment to her jazz compositions: It's just another extension of my intensity when I play. It's characteristic of me. I really don't know of any Azeri tradition that uses it.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh has lived in Mainz since 1989 and performs live in many European countries. In 2008 she founded the Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Trio with Ralf Cetto (bass) and Simon Zimbardo (drums), with whom she has performed since then. The trio first performed in their hometown of Baku on their birthday in 2008. This was followed by other appearances in Germany and other European countries, including at the Montreux Jazz Festival (2009), the Leverkusener Jazztage (2010), the Antalya Piano Festival (2009 and 2013) and others.

Discography

  • 1991: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh (Sony Music)
  • 1993: Always (Sony Music) - with John Patitucci (bass) and Dave Weckl (drums), received the ECHO of the German Phono Association
  • 1995: Dance Of Fire (Sony Music) - with Al di Meola (guitar), Stanley Clarke (bass), Omar Hakim (drums; formerly Weather Report ), Bill Evans (saxophone) and others. a. (DE: Gold in the Jazz Award )
  • 1996: Seventh Truth (Sony Music) (DE: Gold in Jazz Award)
  • 1997: Jazziza (Sony Music) - contains numerous jazz standards such as My Funny Valentine and Dave Brubeck's Take Five in addition to his own compositions
  • 2000: Inspiration - Colors & Reflections (Columbia / Sony) - with Bill Evans (saxophone), Torsten de Winkel (guitar), Kai Eckhardt (bass) and others
  • 2002: Shamans (Decca Records)
  • 2006: Contrasts (Jazziza Records)
  • 2007: Contrasts II - OperaJazz (Jazziza Records)
  • 2020: Generations (Jazziza Records) - with Ralf Cetto (bass) and Simon Zimbardo (drums)

Movie

  • "Princess of Jazz". The singer and pianist Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh. Documentary, Germany, 2010, 42:30 min., Script and director: Alexander C. Stenzel, production: Hessischer Rundfunk , arte , first broadcast: February 27, 2011 on hr-fernsehen , synopsis by ARD .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Aziza Mustafa Zadeh: Jazz, Mugam and Other Essentials of My Life. In: Azerbaijan International , Winter 1996.
  2. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Association of the Music Industry, accessed on June 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Mustafa Zadeh, Aziza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mustafazadə, Əzizə (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th December 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Baku , Azerbaijani SSR