Aziza Mustafa Zadeh was the daughter of musical parents. Vagif Mustafa Zdeh, her father, was a composer and pianist. He created a blend of jazz and traditional Azerbaijani music called mugam. Eliza Mustafa Zadeh was a classically trained singer from Georgia. Aziza was a child who loved all art forms, including singing, dancing, painting and … Read more
Melton Mustafa, the younger brother to saxophonist Jesse Jones Jr., is an expressive, hotblooded trumpeter. He played mainly jazz in the 1980s, ’90s, but also did his fair share of R&B sessions throughout the years. Mustafa was raised in Miami and began playing trumpet in junior high. He also played in a five-piece R&B/calypso group … Read more
Wolfgang Muthspiel, a composer and jazz guitarist from Austria, was born 2 March 1965 in Judenburg. He is the brother to Christian Muthspiel, the pianist and trombonist. At six years old, he began playing the violin and started studying the guitar as an adult. He studied jazz and classical guitar in Graz and then continued … Read more
Born 1962 in Judenburg (Austria), and received 6 lessons on the piano, plus 11 more lessons on the trombone. Musichochschule Graz (Trombone jazz and trombone classical), all studies ended in the end. 1987/88 Scholarship at School of Fine Arts, Banff/Canada. Christian Muthspiel, trombonist, composer, conductor and pianist, is an international musician in jazz/improvised and new … Read more
American jazz singer Mark Murphy has passed away at the age of 83. While he could make a convincing traditional crooner when he wants to, Murphy spent his entire career distancing from mainstream music as an innovator and fearless risk-taker. He once stated, “People say that I’m risk-taking. I’m at the edge.” Murphy’s voice was … Read more
George Clinton’s funk empire wasn’t without its disputes over money and control. Jerome “Bigfoot”, Brailey’s Mutiny was one such disagreement and was also one of the most notable offshoots from the P-Funk axis. Brailey, who had previously played with the Five Stairsteps or the Chambers Brothers in funk, joined P-Funk in 1975 to play on … Read more
James Marcellus Arthur “Sunny”, Murray, September 21, 1936 – December 8th 2017, was one of the first to pioneer free jazz drumming. Murray grew up in Philadelphia and moved to New York City to play with Cecil Taylor. “We played for about one year, just practising, studying — we went workshops with Varese. We did … Read more
uji MUTO & Nana OMORI were founded in 2020 as Yuji’s third free / improvisational jazz project. The pianist Nana OMORI has learned comtemporary music in her young days and played with lots of session artists mainly in US and Japan. On August 22th, 2020, under the pandemic situation, Yuji and Nana recorded material at … Read more
David Murray, Tenor Saxophone, and Bass Clarinet, was born in Oakland in 1955. He was born in Berkeley, where he studied with Catherine Murray, his mother, an organist, and Bobby Bradford. In Los Angeles, he also studied with Stanley Crouch, Margaret Kohn, Margaret Kohn, and Arthur Blythe. He then moved to New York in 1975 … Read more
As Yuji’s second improvisational venture, a ‘live’ duo YujiMUTO and Mako KIMATA formed in 2019. Mako is a well-known guitarist, next order, Ryorchestra or Plastic Dogs guitarist. Mako is already known as a double-bass drummer. They recorded material at Jazz Club Intersat in Nagoya, Japan in September 2019. Their first “live” album, “Fission”, was released … Read more
