NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Vagif Mustafa Zadeh on 4 May 2020. Vagif Mustafa Zadeh has been played on NTS shows including Zel Zele w/ Debora Ipekel & Ece Duzgit, with Mugham first played on 2 March 2019.

Vagif Mustafa Zadeh was an Azeri jazz pianist and composer, famous for fusing jazz and traditional Azeri folk music known as mugham. (His daughter Aziza Mustafa Zadeh now follows in his footsteps as a pianist, composer and singer in the jazz-mugam style.) He was born March 16, 1940 in Azerbaijan, Soviet Union and died of a heart-attack after a concert on December…