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Вагиф Мустафа-Заде (1940-1979)
"I well remember the days when Vagif and I used to gather with friends near Maiden's Tower or in Sabir Park and recite "meykhana". "Meykhana" is a kind of rhythmic poetry, somewhat like contemporary "rap" in the West. It's a pity that none of those pieces were ever recorded."
"On occasion, we would hear jazz excerpts at the movies. You could always tell whenever an American spy was about to appear in a scene in a Soviet movie. His entrance was signaled by jazz. After World War II, we had access to a few American movies. Some had jazz on their soundtracks. Vagif and I used to watch these films at the cinema over and over again, sometimes 20-30 times. We would wait for the sections that had jazz, then rush back home to try to reproduce them while they were still fresh in our minds. I remember that "Sad Baby," a song in the film, "The Fate of an American Soldier," always used to make us cry."
"In 1966, Willis Conover, conductor of the "Jazz Time" radio program, announced, "Vagif Mustafazade is an extraordinary pianist. It is impossible to identify his equal. He is the most lyrical pianist I have ever known."
"Once, when Vagif was playing in the Iveriya Hotel in Tbilisi, the famous American jazz pianist and master of blues, B. B. King, heard him and remarked, "Mr. Mustafazade, they call me the 'King of the Blues,' but I sure wish I could play the blues as well as you do."
From "Vagif Mustafazade: Fusing Jazz with Mugam" by Vagif Samadoglu
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"I well remember the days when Vagif and I used to gather with friends near Maiden's Tower or in Sabir Park and recite "meykhana". "Meykhana" is a kind of rhythmic poetry, somewhat like contemporary "rap" in the West. It's a pity that none of those pieces were ever recorded."
"On occasion, we would hear jazz excerpts at the movies. You could always tell whenever an American spy was about to appear in a scene in a Soviet movie. His entrance was signaled by jazz. After World War II, we had access to a few American movies. Some had jazz on their soundtracks. Vagif and I used to watch these films at the cinema over and over again, sometimes 20-30 times. We would wait for the sections that had jazz, then rush back home to try to reproduce them while they were still fresh in our minds. I remember that "Sad Baby," a song in the film, "The Fate of an American Soldier," always used to make us cry."
"In 1966, Willis Conover, conductor of the "Jazz Time" radio program, announced, "Vagif Mustafazade is an extraordinary pianist. It is impossible to identify his equal. He is the most lyrical pianist I have ever known."
"Once, when Vagif was playing in the Iveriya Hotel in Tbilisi, the famous American jazz pianist and master of blues, B. B. King, heard him and remarked, "Mr. Mustafazade, they call me the 'King of the Blues,' but I sure wish I could play the blues as well as you do."
From "Vagif Mustafazade: Fusing Jazz with Mugam" by Vagif Samadoglu
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