''Always'' is the second album released by the

Azeri Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic people living mainly in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republi ...

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artist

Aziza Mustafa Zadeh Aziza Mustafa Zadeh ( az, Əzizə Mustafazadə; born December 19, 1969) is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist, and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugham (a traditional improvisational style of Azerbaijan) with classical and avant-garde i ...

. It was released in 1993.

Music

"Vagif" is dedicated to the memory of Zadeh's father, the famous Azeri jazz musician and the founder of jazz-''mugam'',

Vagif Mustafazadeh Vagif Mustafazadeh ( az, Vaqif Mustafazadə; 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 ...

. "Crying Earth" is a dedication to all who died in the Khojaly Massacre on 25 February 1992 during the

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Track listing

# "Always" – 4:39 # "Heartbeat" – 7:37 # "Crying Earth" – 6:29 # "A.J.D." – 6:19 # "Yandi Ganim Daha" – 7:30 # "I Don't Know" – 4:59 # "Vagif" – 6:02 # "Marriage Suite" – 5:49 # "Insult" – 4:07 # "Kaukas Mountains" – 4:53 # "Dangerous Piece" – 5:24

Personnel

– piano, vocals *

John Patitucci John Patitucci (born December 22, 1959) is an American jazz bassist and composer. Biography John James Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York. When he was 12, he bought his first bass and decided on his career. He listened to bass parts in R ...

– acoustic bass, 6-string electric bass guitar *

Dave Weckl Dave Weckl (born January 8, 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American jazz fusion drummer and the leader of the Dave Weckl Band. He was inducted into the ''Modern Drummer'' Hall of Fame in 2000. Biography Weckl started playing his first set ...

– drums

References

1993 albums Aziza Mustafa Zadeh albums Columbia Records albums Works about Khojaly Massacre {{1990s-jazz-album-stub