YAZZ AHMED & RALPH WYLD

Jazz Ahmed trumpet, electronics Ralph Wyld vibraphone, marimba, electronics Trumpeter Yazz Ahmed has an interesting background: her mother is British and her father is from Bahrain, the West Asian island where Ahmed spent her childhood until returning to London at the age of nine. She had a musical, jazz and trumpet influence in her family: her maternal grandfather played the same instrument. Talent and diligence led her to study at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Yazz Ahmed is usually classified as part of the currently very popular, and mainly very progressive scene of young London jazz, made up for the most part of personalities with non-European family and cultural background.