Vagif Mustafazade Biography

As an epigraph, they precede the book published in the miniature format in the printing house of Indigo, dedicated to this great master of free improvisation. An amazing phenomenon in our art was called Vagif Mustafazade in the preface to the new edition and anar, the writer, as you know, subtly feels not only the word, but also music, and therefore, I think, so amazingly accurately characterized the uniqueness of the contribution to the Azerbaijani and to the world music of this creator, managed to combine two completely different and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich and equally rich The inexhaustible layers of world musical culture is the wise art of Mugam and the frenzied black jazz.

” A small, format of 60x65 mm, a book, in which only about the pages of the text and about three dozen illustrations, has placed so much that, undoubtedly, it can become the richest, and most importantly - an interesting source of information for those who are not familiar or familiar with the unique art of our catastrophically early a compatriot who received the highest assessment during his life and as a creator, and as a creator, and as a watchman, and as a watchman.

As a performer ... a mini -book, who was published “Vagif Mustafazade” and deduced, apparently, to the birthday of the great musician Marta, offers us an article “Birth of talent” by the musicologist Rauf Farhadov, written at a high professional level and saturated with far from known facts from the hero’s biography ... Vagif Mustafazade appears before the reader as a reader as a reader as a reader The founder of the Azerbaijani jazz and the creator of his new style - jazz mugam.

These two directions in art - jazz and Mugam - always worried the extraordinary musician, were his “sadness and joy, suffering, doubts and happiness ...” ... Music, the Mugam entered the life of the Vagif from early childhood. A wonderful expert in Mugam was his mother, Zivyar Han Aliyev, one of the first Azerbaijani pianists. She studied with mugamous art with the great Uzeir Hajibaili and, having loved the mugs, managed to convey her love for him and her son.

To his father, Aziza Abdul Kerim Ogla Mustafazade, Major of the medical service, Vagif was surely owed his obligation to everything, exactingness, and above all - to his own, responsibility for business. And also with its intelligence and tact, which always attracted people to him. Knowers of the Mustafazade family talk about the phenomena of Vagif from childhood, which is also emphasized in materials published in a miniature book.

He had a brilliant memory: he had a three -year -old child, only once listening to the excerpt from the poem by Samed Vurgun “Farhad and Shirin”, he managed to repeat him without a single mistake. At the same age, he first sat down at the instrument in order to never part with it again. Possessing absolute hearing, he played, say, the songs familiar to everyone, somehow very in his own way, transforming melodies, rhythms, demonstrating the improvisation and relaxedness that surprised everyone.

It was always so. Although he brilliantly played at his first speech on the stage, held in connection with the end of the muscle, Mendelsson's work. By the way, then he noticed the fourteen -year -old Vagif Maestro Niyazi - he saw in this boy the future big musician. It is necessary to say that a huge role in the creative fate of the Vagif was played by his teacher Georgy Georgievich Sharoev, who, having plunged the student into the world of music of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schumann, Rachmaninov, who became the top of the Vagif in art, was the first to pay attention to the ability of all the student to improvise even the most works in the performance of him.

outstanding composers. And when the vagif showed the teacher his first, still immature jazz play, he realized that this student was not only a good pianist. Yes, the main thing in the life of Vagif Mustafazade was always jazz: after all, much earlier, at the age of nine, he played the “man I love” by J. Gershvina, who, as R. Farhadov told us, performed thirty -nine, alas, just a few days before his death.

Jazz art, the future master studied enthusiastically and selflessly. With the help of a tape recorder, I got acquainted with its best representatives. His idols became the saxophonist John Coltrain and pianist Bill Evans: they helped him understand the depth and philosophical of jazz, his lyricism and poetry. Studying at the Muzucchiga coincided with the beginning of the work of the future idol of jazz fans.

The pianist in the orchestra of folk instruments, then the pianist-soloist of the Azerbaijani Radio Committee, however, he was still faithful to Jazz. And even more so at the time when, having entered the conservatory in Baku, he left a year later in Tbilisi, where he was invited by the musical director of the young, who only gained strength of the Orero musical team. In Georgia, feeling interest in his work, Vagif devoted himself completely to his favorite type of art, created Jazz Caucasus.

The author of the article published in a mini-publication shares his thoughts with readers about why jazz, an art born in America far from us, was accepted by us, in particular, Vagif, as a native. With his answer to the question posed, it is probably worth agreeing. Farkhadov,- corresponded to the most complete expression of the creative "I" Vagif Mustafazade. " In this music, he seemed to find himself!

Our compatriot becomes the most desirable for fans of jazz by a participant in jazz evenings, festivals, international jazz forums, at which he always received high recognition. Looking ahead, we recall, in particular, about the participation of Vagif Mustafazade in the international jazz composition competition, held in Monaco in the last year of the musician’s life.

The composition “Waiting for Aziza” by the Azerbaijani composer and pianist was awarded the highest award here ... bowing to the art of jazz, Mustafazade sought to include some improvisational passages in the already familiar jazz melodies. He actively introduced these innovations and developed in the performing activities of VIA “Leili” and “Seville” he created, trying to combine jazz with the principles of classical vocals.

Of course, Vagif Mustafazade with all his talent given to him from above, he constantly studied. Emphasizing the ingenious melodic gift of Uzeir Hajibaili, knowledge of his folklore, he bowed to the magnificent harmonious instinct of this big musician, whose music called "an inexhaustible spring, without which there would be no art in Azerbaijan." And he used this spring, managing to organically merge the mugs with jazz.

Vagif was a bit to all innovations. Working in Georgia, where he got acquainted with the polyphony of Georgian folk music, he decided to polyphonize the Azerbaijani song on a jazz basis and carried out his plan in the years, being the head of the VIA Seville. The first recognition, the first success of our compatriot, is connected with Tbilisi. It was also born his first independent half -hour disk, among the records on which his composition “Morning”, “Oil Stones” attracted special attention.

So, we can say, the beginning of the triumphal path of the great jazzman was the beginning of the triumphal path. A little later, already in his native Baku, where the musician returned at the suggestion of Rauf Gadzhiev, a beautiful expert in jazz, he worked as a pianist in the state pop orchestra of Azerbaijan. But soon, wanting to satisfy his creative fantasy, he created a jazz-trip with the participation of a drummer and smuggler, and then began to realize his old idea of ​​a jazz polyphony in the Azerbaijani song ...

In the homeland, Vagif Mustafazade was never lonely in his worship of Jazz. He always had support in the person of the Corifers of the Azerbaijani musical culture, such as Gara Garayev, emphasizing the affinity of eastern and jazz music, as outstanding musicians Niyazi and Tofik Guliev, who were organized by the state jazz of Azerbaijan, and a number of other masters of national art ...

in a word, jazz in Baku has always existed, and always, delights everyone obstacles, was at the height ... The value of the article published in the mini -book also in the fact that the author touched the problem of the style of the musical letter of his hero, his musical language, which is distinguished by the “Rachmanin’s trepidation in combination with the mugamous reversal of the melodics ...

the lyricism of the improvisations of Evans and the emotionality of the mugamous lyrics” ... However, the article by R. Farhadova is not a story. Only about the life and creative path of a talented Bakuinz, but also an excursion into the history of the birth and development of jazz, which at first arose as an art of entertaining nature, as a holiday - "jubilant, violent and passionate." So it was, according to many, before the appearance of a new direction in the years of the last century - BBP.

In E, Jazz came to the Soviet Union, and then to Azerbaijan. Farhadova,- the fruit of mixing musical cultures of various peoples, Jazz created the appearance of the ease of birth of his own national music, the search for an individual style, aimed at this search. ” In the conclusion of his article, the musicologist talks about the creative connections of Mustafazade with representatives of the musical culture of Azerbaijan, with many of which he was associated with close friendship, about how grateful Vagif Tofik Gulieva, Raufa Gadzhieva, Pyarvisa Rustambekov was grateful for their propaganda of jazz music.

I am grateful like the great Juzists Ellington, Hudman, Parker, Coltrane ... The epilogue -written book, written by Kuzina Vagif Mustafazade - Afag Aliyeva, now the director of the museum’s house, created in Icery Sheher, during the life of the musician’s mother and inherited niece. Afag Hanam takes care of the museum with great love, constantly replenishes his exposition. With pride for his brother, a man of amazing soul, good and strict, courageous and vulnerable, she tells about him, his family, in which two talented girls - Lala, winner of the competition of classical pianists in France, who became a world -class star: 15 years ago, performed with a concert at the King of England in London, she received the title “Princess of Jazz” ...

... I regret to part with a publication that revived the image of a wonderful Bakuinz, a real man, the owner of the greatest talent. It was born according to the good initiative of the Museum of the Miniature Book and, of course, its creator Zarifi Salakhova, for which she will be grateful to everyone who will be lucky to take this miniature masterpiece in his hands.