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Yazz Ahmed | Essential albums and listening guide
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Yazz Ahmed
Meet the artist
A trumpeter with Bahraini and British roots who brings Arabic modes, microtones and electronic textures into improvisation, creating richly colored jazz. Rounded trumpet and flugelhorn tones meet microtonal pitches between familiar semitones.
Arabic melodic sensibilities interact with electronics and bass grooves, making the music atmospheric yet physical. Suite-like writing gives individual scenes a place in a larger journey. Her different cultural roots become a perspective for imagining new sounds, revealing a contemporary British jazz that extends beyond reproducing any single tradition.
Where to start listening
Listen to the horn melodies and the layers of sound surrounding them. Rhythm and instrumental color offer an inviting path into contemporary jazz.
2017La Saboteuse
Yazz Ahmed
An exploration of Ahmed’s British and Bahraini roots, connecting Arabic modes with jazz through the colors of horns, vibraphone and electronics.
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2019Polyhymnia
Yazz Ahmed
A large-ensemble project honoring women in six compositions, with trumpet at the center of musical narratives shaped by varied timbres and rhythms.
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