YAZZ AHMED

An accomplished trumpeter, songwriter and producer, Bahraini British artist Yazz Ahmed has gained global acclaim. Her album “La Saboteuse” (2017) won The Wire magazine’s Jazz Album of the Year award and captured attention beyond the jazz world. “Polyhymnia” (2019) garnered rave reviews, prompting Downbeat Magazine to name her as one of the artists set to shape the future of jazz for the next decade. Blending the spiritual sounds of the Middle East with the futuristic flavor of the UK’s contemporary jazz scene, Yazz’s music has been described as ‘intoxicating, intoxicating and compelling psychedelic Arabic jazz’.