Jeffrey Werbock - Bringing Mugham to the West

For 35 years Jeffrey Werbock has been enthralling and informing western audiences on the unknown art culture of Azerbaijan and its enchanting traditional music called mugham. This video clip offers a sampling of Mr. Werbocks work at various universities and academies in the USA.
Performed on native instruments tar, kemancha and oud Jeffrey Werbock's rendering of Azerbaijani mugham always leaves a deep impression on the audiences.

For more information go to www.mugham.org

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[natavan1987]

the best part of it ;)

Seriously, its well known that the so-called Persian empire was ruled for many hundreds of years by Turk and Farsi speaking Azeri Safavids and later Gajars.

Both of these musical forms derives from more ancient arabic maqqam, which itself comes from even more ancient Egyptian past. Also Central Asia made a major contributions for this music as well as North Indian raga

[quzeyli]

I want to say "BIG Thanks" to Miss uploader!

It seems that some neighbour nations, especially Persians and Armenians try to "own" the "pearls" of Azerbaijan music. However, that should be known that source of Azerbaijani music comes from the soul of Azerbaijanians, from their colorful nature.

I am appreciate to Mr. Werbocks because of his serve to Azerbaijani culture.

[Vatancin]

Thank you. You feel Azerbaijanian music so sensitively , that perhaps in your past life You were Azerbaijanian). Please accept my compliments and appreciation.

[srvdb]

respect

[fuadserver]

Gözəl!

[DAVIDOW244]

that's great to see somes want to spread and introduce this amazing music culture to the world..!!.Thanks warmly mr Jeffrey!

[MrAllaman15]

Nach meine Meinung ist es die Notwendigkeit,dass Aziza Mustafazade zusammen mit Jeffrey Werbock ein Konzert machen sollen,sogar mussen! :)

[araz239]

2- Noboday cant deny the impact of the neibour nations culture and art on the others but you should consider that in Azerbaijan there is an ancient type of music which is played by Ashiq or Ozan. This type of music is almost unique and belongs to the turkish nations. If you listen to this type of music and also mugam you can notice the great impact of this music on mugam. Besides there are folk songs, dances and many other variants of music that makes the Azerbaijan mugam more richer and unique.

[araz239]

Natavan1987,,, i would like to tell you few things:

1- the safavids were Turkish speaking not Frasi!!! the king of safavid shah Ismayil has many poets only in turkish and the official language of the kingdom in this period was Turkish...

In Qajars period they tended to use Farsi as a language to document the orders but anyway the spoken language of the royal family and also most of the people and specially the army was Turkish.