Yazz Ahmed's 2015 Album Polyhymnia on 180g 2LP.

Yazz Ahmed's album ‘Polyhymnia’ celebrates female courage, determination, and creativity. Commissioned by Tomorrow’s Warriors in 2015, she wrote an extended work for their Nu Civilisation Orchestra, performed at the Women of the World Festival on International Women’s Day at the QEH, London. Channelling Polyhymnia, the Greek Muse of music, poetry, and dance, Yazz created a suite of movements dedicated to outstanding women role models. This album contrasts her previous work, "La Saboteuse," which was driven by her inner-destroyer or anti-muse.

Since the premiere performance, the music evolved and deepened, with Yazz choosing to feature a wider pool of artists, including members of her Hafla band and other musical friends, on this recording. Yazz shares her musical response to the stories and achievements of exceptional women, including Rosa Parks, Haifaa Al-Mansour and Malala Yousafzai, and simultaneously illuminates the creativity and talents of her musical collaborators. She hopes to inspire others, echoing Malala's words, "to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves, and realise their full potential."

“Rich, powerful, colourful, exciting and highly evocative.” - The Jazzman

“Yazz Ahmed (...) establishes herself as one of the more creative new voices in jazz with Polyhymnia. (...) This is a first-rate, original album.” Paul de Barros, Downbeat

“But nothing prepared me for the impact of her third album, Polyhymnia and its scale, breadth and imagination. It’s a large piece with a band of 25 mostly female musicians, that comfortably sits alongside the very best works of those great ’60s and ’70s British jazz composers.” Paul Kelley, London Jazz News

“an innovative, wonderfully colourful conceptual album” - Hamish IRvine, Jazz Revelations

“Everything you could want from a jazz album” - Robert Miklos, Everything Is Noise