Family
Mustafov
Ferus Mustafov
Macedonian Roma — Štip
Style: Balkan Romani brass & wedding
Ferus Mustafov. Saxophone and clarinet. Songlines: Štip, 20 December 1950 — Skopje, 22 May 2023. A wedding-band king who mostly stayed off the world-music circuit.
Songlines, Kim Burton, 7 June 2023: born in Štip into a Roma family of musicians. Father Ilmi Jašarov, saxophone; mother Zumbrut also played. Violin and clarinet at the local school. Professional at seventeen.
Songlines: Sarajevo in the 1970s folk new wave; then Skopje. Director of Romani-language music programming for television there. Globe Style and Tropical issued records for a Western ear. He preferred local and diasporic rooms, and a motel-restaurant with a studio of his own.
Death: stroke, hospital in Skopje, 22 May 2023, aged 72. Macedonian notices: Xoraxane family. A different chair from Kočani brass. A merge with Naat Veliov is not recorded.
Lineage
Birth and death on a vertical line — generation by generation. Places are listed where we could find them.
Generation 1
Ferus Mustafov
Saxophone, clarinet · 1950–2023
Born 20 December 1950 · Štip — Died 22 May 2023 · Skopje
Songlines. Father Ilmi Jašarov, saxophone.
Generation 2
Ilmi Jašarov
Saxophone
Father. Songlines: credited with bringing the saxophone into that local folk.
Orchestra years
When the band was founded, when it split, when a new generation took the stand.
1950
birth
Štip
Mustafov
Songlines: 20 December 1950, Štip. Roma family of musicians.
2023
Band ends
Skopje
Mustafov
Songlines: died 22 May 2023, hospital in Skopje, after a stroke. Aged 72.
Neighbours
Same country or city, but a different way of playing.
- Teodosievski / Redžepova — Macedonian Roma — Skopje
- Kočani — Macedonian Roma — Kočani