Videos – Yazz Ahmed


Play Organ Eternal (Winter Jazzfest 2018)
PlayLive session VG Turning EastWe played at the Turning East festival November 2017, in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. 


For Vrije Geluiden we played two pieces: 'The Space Between The Fish and The Moon' and 'The Lost Pearl’ which is an ode to the pearl divers of Bahrain.
PlayYazz Ahmed - St. LukesThis video is from the premier of my LSO Soundhub composition 'St Luke’, inspired by the sounds inside LSO St Luke’s and written specially for my newly developed quarter-tone flugelhorn.
PlayYazz Ahmed - Alhaan Al Siduri DocumentaryThis is a documentary of the making of my Birmingham Jazzlines Fellowship piece, Alhaan al Siduri, which was premiered at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham, October 2015.
PlayThe Lost Pearl Psychedelic Version
PlayYazz Ahmed Quartet - The Lost Pearl Recording Session.Here's a glimpse behind the scenes during the recording of my second album. The piece we're playing is a composition by myself called The Lost Pearl.
PlayRadiohead - Live From The BasementRecorded in May 2011, performing a live version of The King of Limbs.I play flugelhorn and trumpet on Bloom, Codex and The Daily Mail.
PlayThese New Puritans - 'EXPANDED (Live at the Barbican)'Probably one of the most exciting projects I have ever been involved in, EXPANDED, was performed and recorded live at the Barbican, London, 17/04/14. Unfortunately you can't actually see me, but you can certainly hear me!
PlayThese New puritans - The Light In Your NameThis live session was to launch an interactive instillation at the Vinyl Factory, London, during April 2014. Jack is playing the magnetic resonator piano which was featured at the exhibition
PlayThese New puritans - Fragment Two - live sessionThis was filmed at the Guardian offices in Kings Place, October 2013. It's a good job they're the nicest people I know, because if you're going to spend six weeks on a tour bus you need to get along!!
PlayYazz Ahmed & Lewis Wright at the Cowshed - Improvisation C Take IIIFour short films from a fun day out at the Cowshed studio, starting work on my second album.
PlayThese New Puritans: Island Song
PlayJoan as Police Woman - Later…with Jools HollandThis was filmed live on 22/04/2014 and was my very first time on Later…with Jools Holland, playing alongside the wonderful New York artist, Joan as Police Woman.
PlayInterplay London/Sweden - 2012. From Mellby to LondonInterplay is a collaboration between three British and three Swedish composers/musicians in November 2012. This was one of the most enjoyable and inspiring projects I have ever been involved in. They are my new adopted family and I miss them very much!
PlayManic Street Preachers - Ocean SprayI auditioned for this video at only eighteen years old, and had the privilege of playing along to the trumpet solo in the middle of the song.
Commissioned by Apple.

“The traditional Souq isn’t like any other market… It’s an experience where you explore with all of your senses and feelings.
Commissioned by Apple.

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