"My idea was a love story between a mugam singer from Azerbaijan and an American artist," says the 63-year-old composer and pianist, who's in Houston for the premiere of a new chamber-opera, ...

The mugami-jazz of Azeri-born pianist and composer, Aziza Mustapha-Zadeh belongs right here is this wellspring and outpouring of emotion. It illuminates everything: strength, drive, courage like ...

When it comes to Azerbaijan and music, Eurovision – and, now, Jennifer Lopez – have largely hogged the outside world’s attention. But practitioners of mugam, an ancient Azerbaijani form of musical ...

Well-known for a broad world view and a modernistic avoidance of the purely classical tradition, the Kronos Quartet has become something of a yardstick by which other contemporary string quartets are ...

It is an endeavor both exhilarating and confounding in its scope. When the Houston Grand Opera presents its world premiere of Your Name Means the Sea, it will be putting together U.S. opera performers ...

"FIZULI!" Alim Qasimov shouts the word and seems to have taken leave of his senses as he mimes a martial art move in the street. I'm already distracted by the startling sight of young Baku beauties in ...

'Her pieces unfold with a magical sense of timing,' says Kronos violinist David Harrington of the music of the Azerbaijani composer Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. 'New scenes arrive mysteriously, each born just ...

Mugam, a national heritage of Azerbaijan, is a pearl of the world music art, Azerbaijani First Lady, Heydar Aliyev Foundation President, UNESCO and ISESCO Goodwill Ambassador Mehriban Aliyeva said in ...

Indrani Mukherjee is off to Azerbaijan to perform at the Second International Mugam Festival. Mugam draws on Iranian-Arabic-Turkish Mawam. According to Wikipedia: “Mugam is a highly complex art form ...

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Franghiz Ali-Zadeh was born in 1947 in Baku, Azerbaijan, a former Soviet state that stands at a cultural crossroads with Persian, Turkic, Arab and Russian elements in its legacy. By Billboard Staff ...