Yazz Ahmed
Yazz Ahmed played flugal horn and treatments on the Tim Finn & Phil Manzanera album Caught By The Heart
Through her music, British-Bahraini trumpet player, 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’.
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.
A mark of her growing reputation is the series of sold out concerts in London over the last few years. These include shows at Jazz In The Round, Kings Place, The Jazz Café, the Purcell Room and at the Church of Sound.
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.
As a guest soloist and composer, Yazz has performed with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra, NYJO, NYOS, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Jazz Orchestra.