Yazz Ahmed Quartet

 

After an esteemed career-start in Pop and Rock bands including Thom Yorke’s Radiohead, trumpet and horn player Yazz Ahmed won over critics and music lovers alike with her first album La Saboteuse, released in 2017. With a strong feeling for electronic sound design, the British-Bahraini musician melts elements from the new UK Jazz-Scene with traditional Arabic themes. Yazz also explores writing music for her newly developed quarter-tone flugelhorn, a unique instrument which enables her to get closer to the spiritual nature of the ‘blue notes’ in Arabic music, all this perfectly featured on her last-to-date album Polyhymni

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