COMPOSERS: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
LABELS: Columbia
WORKS: Dance of Fire
PERFORMER: Zadeh (p, vcl); Bill Evans (saxes); Al Di Meola (g); Stanley Clarke or Kai E Karpeh De Camargo (b); Omar Hakim (d)
CATALOGUE NO: 480352 2 (distr. Sony Jazz)
Since the world is not awash with Azerbaijani jazz-cum-folk-singer-pianists, Zadeh can rightly claim to be unique. Simultaneously as engaging as she is haunting, here is a new slant on the jazz vocal, just when you thought everything had been said on the subject. Stuart Nicholson
Aziza Mustafa Zadeh
Since the world is not awash with Azerbaijani jazz-cum-folk-singer-pianists, Zadeh can rightly claim to be unique. Simultaneously as engaging as she is haunting, here is a new slant on the jazz vocal, just when you thought everything had been said on the subject. Stuart Nicholson
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:08 pm