Through her music, British-Bahraini trumpet player, composer and producer, Yazz Ahmed, seeks to blur the lines between jazz and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage in what has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling’.
Her album, La Saboteuse (Naim Records, 2017), scooped Jazz Album of the Year in The Wire magazine and achieved attention beyond the jazz world. Polyhymnia (2019) won multiple rave reviews, leading Downbeat Magazine to name her as one of the artists set to shape the future of jazz over the next decade.
Yazz has led her ensembles in performances across the UK & Europe, and further afield including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, USA & Canada. She has also enchanted audiences at major festivals such as WOMAD, Love Supreme, NYC Winter Jazz Fest & Pori Jazz.
Her career is studded with high profile collaborations, which have...
Through her music, British-Bahraini trumpet player, composer and producer, Yazz Ahmed, seeks to blur the lines between jazz and electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage in what has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling’.
Her album, La Saboteuse (Naim Records, 2017), scooped Jazz Album of the Year in The Wire magazine and achieved attention beyond the jazz world. Polyhymnia (2019) won multiple rave reviews, leading Downbeat Magazine to name her as one of the artists set to shape the future of jazz over the next decade.
Yazz has led her ensembles in performances across the UK & Europe, and further afield including Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, USA & Canada. She has also enchanted audiences at major festivals such as WOMAD, Love Supreme, NYC Winter Jazz Fest & Pori Jazz.
Her career is studded with high profile collaborations, which have seen her record and perform with the likes of Radiohead, Lee Scratch Perry, Transglobal Underground, Susheela Raman, Tarek Yamani, Amel Zen, including a world tour with These New Puritans.
Yazz has been nominated for Downbeat Magazine’s ‘Trumpet Artist of The Year' and featured in the 'Rising Star Trumpet' category in the 2020 Downbeat critics’ poll. And at the close of 2020, she won the Jazz FM Award for UK Jazz Act of the Year, Jazz FM Album of The Year, and the highly prestigious Ivor Novello Award for Innovation.
A true innovator and frontrunner in breaking boundaries in both music, gender equality as well as culture in a whole. Or as she modestly puts it:
“I hope that through my music I can bring people together, building bridges between cultures, and changing perceptions about women in jazz and people of Muslim heritage”...
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