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Yazz Ahmed Quartet at Crookes Social Club

Courtesy of Christopher Paul Thomas | Posted on June 18, 2021

Where

Crookes Social Club
Mulehouse Road
Sheffield
Map
0114 2660114

Yazz Ahmed Quartet at Crookes Social Club

When

Fri, December 10, 2021
20:00

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Musicians

About

Yazz Ahmed: trumpet & flugelhorn
Ralph Wyld: vibraphone
Dave Manington: bass
Josh Blackmore: drums

Yazz Ahmed returns to Sheffield following her hugely popular gig at Crookes in 2018. Her 2017 album ‘La Saboteuse’ was widely judged to be a jazz album of the year, blending Western and Middle Eastern influences. Her quartet will be performing music from her latest album ‘Polyhymnia’, a celebration of female courage, determination and creativity. “Rich, powerful, colourful, exciting and highly evocative. Ahmed’s most ambitious and most successful work to date…” The Jazz Mann. It was rated Jazz FM Album of the Year 2020 while Yazz received Jazz Act of the Year in the same awards. Expect undulating rhythms, melody resonant with the sounds and sensations of the Middle East and sonorous trumpet lines. ...

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