Vagif Mustafa-Zade

Vagif Mustafazadeh (; March 16, 1940 – December 16, 1979), also known as Vaqif Mustafa-Zadeh, was a Soviet-Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and the traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham. According to many world famous jazz musicians,В Баку представлена Всемирная энциклопедия джаза, в которую вошли имена Вагифа и Азизы Мустафазаде Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world Mustafazadeh is one of the pioneers and "the architect of jazz in Azerbaijan".meer