Aziza Mustafa Zadeh

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh ( Azerbaijani Əzizə Mustafazadə of batteries: Äzizä Mustafazadä, born December 19, 1969 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is an Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer, who is occasionally apostrophized as Princess of Jazz. Developed by Mustafa Zadeh musical style is a blend of jazz, scat singing, elements of classical piano music and traditional Azerbaijani music improvisation ( Mugam ).

Life

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh comes from a musical family. Her father, Vaqif Mustafazadə was a pianist and composer and a leading proponent of jazz Mugam in Azerbaijan. He died suddenly on 16 December 1979 at the age of 39 during a stage appearance, just before Aziza's tenth birthday. Her mother, Eliza Mustafazadə (born Elsa or Eliza Khanom ) is a classically trained singer, who accompanied her husband on stage and in studio recordings and today works as Aziza's manager.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh has already appeared as a small child publicly and accompanied her father. She received a classical musical education at the Conservatory Baku and took classical piano lessons. Early on, she developed a keen talent for improvisation and a positive relationship to jazz.

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

Your scat singing she describes as an accompaniment to their jazz compositions: It's just another extension of my intensity when i play. It's characteristic of me. I really do not know of any Azeri tradition did uses it.

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh lived since 1989 in Mainz and performing live in many European countries. With Ralf Cetto (bass) and Simon Zimbardo (drums), she founded 2008 Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Trio, with whom she has performed since then. The trio appeared in 2008 on her birthday in her hometown of Baku for the first time. It was followed by other appearances in Germany and other European countries, including the Montreux Jazz Festival (2009), the Leverkusen Jazz Days (2010), the Antalya Piano Festival (2009 and 2013) and others.

Discography

Film

• "Princess of Jazz". The singer and pianist Aziza Mustafa -Zadeh. Documentary, Germany, 2010 42:30 minutes, written and directed by Alexander C. Stenzel, Production: Hessischer Rundfunk, arte, first broadcast February 27, 2011 at hr- tv, Summary of ARD.