‘Women are more interested in collaborating than showing off’: jazz trumpeter Yazz Ahmed

The acclaimed musician and composer mixes jazz with traditional Arabic rhythms and has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, creating a sound that reflects her heritageYazz Ahmed once wrote that the question she was most sick of hearing was: “Are you the singer?” It was the only way many people could make sense of her place as a woman in jazz. These days – following her critically acclaimed 2017 album La Saboteuse, playing flugelhorn for Radiohead and touring with Thes...

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