Jazz Articles about Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse

by Chris May
February 20, 2018

If Miles Davis was alive today and in the studio recording Bitches Brew, the results might, just might, resemble parts of London-based Yazz Ahmed's La Saboteuse. Other approximate reference points are, during the more reflective moments, Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's Dream Theory In Malaya: Fourth World Volume 2 and Davis's In A Silent Way. But Ahmed's album is no knock-off of any of those discs--there are lengthy passages on which it does not sound remotely like either one of ...