Yazz Ahmed

Yazz Ahmed is a British-Bahraini trumpet player and award-winning composer. She seeks to blur the lines between global jazz traditions and electronic sound design in a style she once described as "psychedelic Arabic jazz." Her internationally acclaimed sophomore album, 2017's La Saboteuse, proved Ahmed a gifted soloist and arranger. 2019's Polyhymnia, a large group concept album devoted to the Greek Muse for the arts named in the title, and a remix EP were released later that year. 2025's A Paradise in the Hold, a project ten years in the making, found the British-Bahraini mus...