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Musician

Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed is a British-Bahraini trumpet player and composer who seeks to blur the lines between jazz, electronic sound design, bringing together the sounds of her mixed heritage. Her music has been described as ‘psychedelic Arabic jazz, intoxicating and compelling’.

In recent years she has led her various ensembles in concerts around the UK and abroad, including performances in New York, Toronto, Kuwait, Algiers, Berlin, Köln, Paris, Istanbul, Tunis and Amsterdam, and at major festivals such as WOMAD, Molde Jazz, Pori Jazz and Love Supreme.

Yazz has also recorded and performed with Radiohead, Lee Scratch Perry, Nile Rodgers, ABC, Swing Out Sister, Joan as Police Woman, Tarek Yamani, Amel Zen and toured the world with These New Puritans. She recently appeared as a guest soloist/composer with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra.

Album

Syzygy

By Noel Langley

Label: Suntara Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Unspoken; Lonely Angel Song; All's Fair; Such Sweet Sorrow; Palo Santo; Beyond Our Ken; Fire Sprite; The Old Church, Llangelynin; Contemplation; Monde Verde; Deer-Bone Trumpet, Skin & Feathers; Syzygy; The Elders; Benediction; Houses to the Sun.

Album

We Are Surging Waters

By Rosa Brunello

Label: Domanda Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Hearts Beat For Freedom; Line Unbroken; We Are Surging Waters; Fish Without A Bicycle; When The River Remembered Its Name; Living Upstream; No Bass Frills; Witching Hour; Memory In The Making.

Article: Interview

Yazz Ahmed on "Bitches Brew"

by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut
November 11, 2026

This interview was conducted as part of the FranceTV.com special Miles Davis, 100 ans d'avance. More than fifty years after its release, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) still sounds like a leap into the unknown. It remains one of Miles Davis' boldest reinventions, a work whose influence extends well beyond jazz into electronic music, rock ...

Video

Yazz Ahmed Reimagines Bitches Brew

Featuring the music of Yazz Ahmed
Duration: 41:50
November 11, 2026

More than fifty years after its release, Bitches Brew still sounds like a leap into the unknown. It remains one of Miles Davis' boldest reinventions, a work whose influence extends well beyond jazz into electronic music, rock and experimental sound.

For Yazz Ahmed and her band featuring Samuel Hällkvist (guitar), Alcyona Mick (keyboards), Rosa Brunello (bass), Jason Singh (beatbox) and Rod Youngs (drums), reimagining it meant neither recreating nor updating the original, but continuing its spirit of exploration.

Click here to read the interview to Yazz Ahmed about this performance, produced by David Unger and Samuel Thiebaut for France Télévisions.

Article: Album Review

Noel Langley: Syzygy

by Neil Duggan
November 5, 2026

There has been a 12-year gap since British trumpeter, composer and producer Noel Langley released his debut as a leader, Edentide (Suntara Records, 2014). He returns with Syzygy, an album that offers a partial account of what he has been doing in the intervening years. The core of the album was recorded during a session with ...

Article: Album Review

Dylan Jones: Statue

by Andrew Hunter
July 14, 2026

Like so many talented young musicians in London, Dylan Jones spent some time developing his skills with Tomorrow's Warriors, a talent development organization without which we might never have heard Courtney Pine, Steve Williamson, Yazz Ahmed, Nubya Garcia, Soweto Kinch... The London scene would be very different without them. Jones played in Ezra Collective ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Music from Lakecia Benjamin, Yazz Ahmed, New Jazz Underground and Brad Goode with Ernie Watts

by Hobart Taylor
June 3, 2026

Loads of new releases and Sonny Rollins answers the question, “Why was I Born?"Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Claudia Acuña “Meditation in Two Chords" from Ave de Luz (Delfin) 00:11 Okan “Ajé (Owo Nla Nla)" from (Single) (Lulaworld) 05:33 Julian Muro “Ay (feat. Bergamot Quartet, Ethan Cohn)" from Apfus, Vol.1 (ears&eyes) 08:30 Host Speaks 14:15 ...

Article: 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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Black Nile, Bria Skonberg, Arturo Sandoval and an interview with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose

by Hobart Taylor
May 6, 2026

This week's show features an interview with Jeff Lederer and Mary LaRose about their new release in conjunction with the Wildebeest Wind Quintet, “There's A Yearnin.'" The album consists of newly resurfaced scores by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Oliver Nelson with new lyrics by Mary LaRose.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yazz Ahmed “Dawn Patrol" ...