{"title":"Yazz Ahmed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eYazz Ahmed arrived at the trumpet by accident and by inheritance simultaneously. When she returned to London from Bahrain at nine years old and started at a new school, she was asked which instrument she wanted to play. Her maternal grandfather, Terry Brown, had been a jazz trumpeter in the 1950s, and that fact determined the choice. The music that followed from it has spent fifteen years refusing to stay in one place: jazz, Arabic folk music, electronics, Kaoss Pad manipulation, quarter-tone flugelhorn, and a compositional ambition that keeps producing works too large for a small ensemble and too personal to feel like academic world music fusion. She graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, worked alongside Radiohead and These New Puritans, and released her debut \"Finding My Way Home\" (Suntara, 2011) before the wider world caught up. \"La Saboteuse\" (Naim, 2017), named for the inner voice of self-sabotage she decided to give a character and confront directly, reached number 18 on Bandcamp's top 100 albums across all genres and won The Wire's Jazz Album of the Year. \"Polyhymnia\" (Ropeadope, 2019), a suite dedicated to courageous women across history including Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai and the first female Saudi film director Haifaa al-Mansour, won the Jazz FM Album of the Year and an Ivor Novello Award for Innovation. \"A Paradise in the Hold\" (2025), a decade-in-the-making project that introduced voice for the first time, drew on traditional Bahraini wedding poems and the songs of the pearl divers. She has been commissioned by Blue Note Records and the BBC. Ahmed has described her own music as \"psychedelic Arabic jazz.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yazz-ahmed-finding-my-way-home-2024-night-time-stories-light-blue-vinyl-lp-numbered","title":"Yazz Ahmed - Finding My Way Home (2024 Night Time Stories Light Blue Vinyl LP, Numbered)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYazz Ahmed - \u003cem\u003eFinding My Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e | Vinyl LP - Night Time Stories (ALNLP74W, limited numbered light-blue reissue)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYazz Ahmed has become one of the most singular voices in British jazz, a trumpeter and composer who weaves the maqam scales and rhythms of her Bahraini heritage into the music to create what she calls psychedelic Arabic jazz. \u003cem\u003eFinding My Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e, first released in 2011 and reissued here on vinyl for the first time, is where that journey begins. It is an early, exploratory record, quieter and more intimate than the lush albums that made her name, and much of it consists of spontaneous duo improvisations between her trumpet and Janek Gwizdala's bass, pieces conjured in the moment and named afterward. Around those miniatures sit fuller compositions that already hint at where she was heading: \"Wah-Wah Sowahwah\" and the ten-minute title track bring in Arabic percussion, cello and the bass clarinet of Shabaka Hutchings, blending jazz harmony with the colours and inflections of the Gulf. It is the sound of a musician finding her voice, tentative in places but unmistakably her own, and it rewards anyone who has followed where she went next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAhmed would go on to make \u003cem\u003eLa Saboteuse\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePolyhymnia\u003c\/em\u003e, the albums that established her internationally, but this debut has been hard to find for years, available only on a long-out-of-print CD, so this reissue is a genuine event for anyone building a collection of the current British scene. Night Time Stories have given it a proper vinyl issue, and this is the numbered limited pressing on light-blue vinyl, one of only a thousand copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Night Time Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44023158341691,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/3203\/3339\/files\/a3665944204_10.jpg?v=1787271538"}],"url":"https:\/\/lushliferecords.com.au\/collections\/yazz-ahmed.oembed","provider":"Lush Life Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}