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 ...

Who better to write an opera about the meeting of Eastern and Western cultures? "My idea was a love story between a mugam singer from Azerbaijan and an American artist," says the 63-year-old composer ...

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 ...

With his sublime renditions of Azerbaijan's classical music, Alim Qasimov is one of the world's great performers. On the eve of the singer's appearance at the Barbican’s Transcender Weekend of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Heydar Aliyev Foundation, providing special support to the development of Azerbaijani culture, published a music album on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the People's Artist of Azerbaijan ...

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 ...