Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh. Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary American jazz trumpeter, reportedly lauded Mustafazadeh for creating "the music of the future." Inna Naroditskaya, “Azerbaijani Mugham Jazz,” Jazz Worlds/World Jazz, ed. Philip V. Bohlman and Goffredo Plastino, Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 98-124. Azerbaijani jazz The Azerbaijani jazz () is a popular variety of jazz, widespread in Azerbaijan. It covers a broad range of styles (traditional, post-pop, fusion, free flexion) and often features a blend with traditional Azeri music. Among modern famed Azeri jazz musicians are Aziza Mustafazadeh, who was influenced by Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, Isfar
Sylvia Brooks Sylvia Brooks Sylvia Brooks is an American jazz singer. Brooks was born as Sylvia Victoria Ippolito in Miami Beach, Florida. Her father, Don Ippolito, was a jazz pianist who has played with various other icons such as Ira Sullivan, Buddy Rich, Peggy Lee, and Dizzie Gillespie, and her mother, Johanna Dordick, was an opera singer, who founded the Los Angeles Opera Theatre. Brooks began her professional life as an actress; in 2009, she began singing Jazz and formed a collaboration with Thomas Garvin who wrote the arrangements for her debut album "Dangerous Liaisons". In 2012, Brooks released her second album,