Pianist, jazzman, composer and beloved pedagogue Rovshan Rzayev has passed away yesterday, according to Azerbaijan in Focus, reporting Trend.
His friend, vocalist and composer Gasim Khalilov shared about this on his social network account.
According to G. Khalilov, Rovshan Rzayev, who also worked as a teacher at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory, stood at the beginning of Azerbaijani jazz along with Vagif Mustafazadeh and later worked with Rashid Behbudov and Muslim Magomayev:
“Today, Rovshan’s student won first place among instrumentalists in the competition of young jazzmen. Today is International Jazz Day, and today we lost such a jazzman.”
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