听Aziza Mustafa Zadeh，即使是宁静沉思的旋律也掩盖不了内里蕴涵的激情。这个美艷絕倫的女子，从小就是音乐天才儿童，出生于阿塞拜疆的首都Baku的一个音乐世家，父亲是阿塞拜疆著名的钢琴家和作曲家，以创作融合了爵士和传统的阿塞拜疆Mugam（一种复杂的传统音乐诗歌表现形式）的音乐作品而闻名，她的母亲Eliza Mustafa Zadeh是一个来自格鲁吉亚受过古典音乐训练的歌唱家，还是孩童的时候，Aziza就非常喜欢各种艺术形式：舞蹈、绘画和唱歌，3岁开始弹钢琴并与她父亲一起在公众面前演出，即兴演唱，最终她最出色的才能显现在她的钢琴演奏方面。
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh在14岁举办了她的第一场音乐会，17岁Aziza在华盛顿，以她个人特有的带着Mugam风格来演奏Monk的作品而获得了Thelonious Monk钢琴比赛大奖。1991年发行了以她的名字命名的首张专辑Aziza Mustafa Zadeh，混合了她的民族音乐根源以及古典和爵士元素，获得了德国Echo大奖以及德国Phono协会颁发的爵士大奖。被许多知名音乐人士誉为一个既是作曲家又是表演家的天才，她的音乐让人们感知到她的民族文化，听到了阿塞拜疆。
Artist: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
Album: Jazziza
Released: Jan, 1997
Source: Sony (487897)
Genre: Jazz Vocal-Jazz Instrumental
Review:
Not very useful but will fill up this box .
In 1998, Aziza a touching tribute to her father’s memory (and, incidentally, using the very name Vagif Mustafa Zadeh had given her as a child prodigy), Aziza turned the world of jazz onto her deep-rooted mugami side. Joined by Jean ‘Toots’ Thielemans’ (harmonica), Philip Catherine (the ‘gypsy’ guitarist), and Eduardo Contrera (Brasilian percussion). She turned Paul Desmond’s “Take Five” into a dervish romp through an Elysian field of dreams; Rogers and Hart’s ‘My Funny Valentine’ and ‘Orfeo Negro’ became odes to the tradition of mugam and the mugami musicians and actually appeared to race in and out of both songs! Antonio Carlos Join’s ‘Insansatez’ became the ‘shur’ mugam mode and Charlie Parker’s ‘Scrapple from the Apple’ became the ‘rast’! On this album, Aziza also showcased her compositional genius with two new compositions – ‘Sunny Rain’, and another which is pure Aziza – ‘Butterflies’ – with its explosive intermezzo for piano and scat performed with baroque strictness and splendor!
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh - Grand piano and vocals
Toots Thielemans - Harmonica
Eduardo Contrera - Percussion
Philip Catherine - Guitar
