Jazz Articles about Yazz Ahmed

About Yazz Ahmed

Interview

Yazz Ahmed: Bridging Worlds Through Sound

by Marco Iacoboni
May 22, 2026

Yazz Ahmed is one of the most compelling and innovative voices in contemporary jazz, an Anglo-Bahraini trumpeter and composer acclaimed for her fusion of jazz, avant-garde electronics and Middle Eastern musical traditions. Her music creates soundscapes that feel at once ancient and futuristic, deeply rooted yet constantly searching for new directions. Rather than using music simply as a vehicle for performance, Ahmed approaches it as a means of building bridges between cultures and reshaping perceptions--through a musical language ...

Interview

Yazz Ahmed: un suono che unisce mondi

by Marco Iacoboni
December 8, 2025

La compositrice e trombettista anglo-bahreinita Yazz Ahmed è una delle voci più affascinanti e innovative del jazz contemporaneo, acclamata per la sua efficace fusione di jazz, elettronica d'avanguardia e tradizioni musicali del Medio Oriente, creatrice di paesaggi sonori allo stesso tempo ancestrali e futuristici. Attraverso la sua musica, Yazz Ahmed non cerca solo di esibirsi, ma di costruire ponti tra culture differenti e trasformarne le percezioni, con un approccio che privilegia la leadership collettiva e l'emozione rispetto al ...

Album Review

Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise In The Hold

Read "A Paradise In The Hold" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
September 10, 2025

Yazz Ahmed's music has focused on combining her love of jazz with her Bahrani heritage since her first recording in 2011, and with her release, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories, 2025), she adds a new component: voice. With lyrics in both English and Arabic, Ahmed uses stories and music from her childhood in Bahrain as the seed for this collection of songs, originating about a decade ago when she traveled back to Bahrain to complete a commissioned ...

Radio & Podcasts

Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Neil Ardley

by Jerome Wilson
April 30, 2025

This episode features recent releases by Yazz Ahmed, Jeong Lim Yang, and Judy Wexler alongside older music from Neil Ardley, Art Tatum, and Bruno Raberg. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Art Tatum “I Cover The Waterfront" from Jewels in the Treasure Box (Resonance) 00:55 Laszlo Gardony “Three Minute Mile" from Dig Deep (Sunnyside) 5:31 Vardan Ovsepian “Glass Figures" ...

Radio & Podcasts

Trumpeters Yazz Ahmed and Rachel Therrien, Guitarists Wes Montgomery and Nels Cline and AACM and PAPA artist Maia the Artiste

by Hobart Taylor
March 5, 2025

New Music from Yazz Ahmed, Nels Cline, Rachel Therrien and music and interview with AACM and PAPA artist Maia the Artiste.Playlist Wes Montgomery “Four on Six" from The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (Concord) 0:00 Nels Cline “ The Returning Angel" from Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) 6:17 Host Speaks 11:37 Yazz Ahmed “Al Naddaha" from A Paradise In The Hold (Night Time Stories) 14:57 Artemis “ Footprints" from Arboresque (Blue Note) 22:54 The Hemphill Stringtet “Revue" from ...

Album Review

Tim Garland: Moment Of Departure

Read "Moment Of Departure" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
May 2, 2024

For Tim Garland, the title, Moment of Departure, describes the “dive into the fresh unknown as improvisors, leaving the solid ground of what has been composed." Many of the tracks were inspired by the free-flowing artwork of Turkish painter Esra Kizir Gokcen. Her own migrant narrative provides the alternative meaning for the title. This combination of musical control and liberty has been at the heart of the Lighthouse Trio, who will mark their 20th anniversary in 2024. The ...

Book Review

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star

by Chris May
March 18, 2024

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star Chris Searle 394 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz In Britain 2024 Although Marxist-Leninist theory itself has proved to be, at best, a blind alley--and, at worst, in practice the enemy of the freedoms it claims to champion--writers from the Left have contributed much to the study of jazz, an art form which has ideas of freedom, both artistic and societal, at its core. The ...