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The Memorial to Miles Festival has been organised for 21 years by Targi Kielce and the Kielce Cultural Centre; again the event promises to be outstanding. From 21 to 24 September, artists who have gained fame and appreciation in Poland and Europe will perform at the Kielce Culture Centre. The legendary Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, the Dorota Miśkiewicz and the Brazilian Toninho Horta duo, Włodek Pawlik and Marek Pospieszalski's octet offer moving and surprising performances. There will also be representatives of new jazz wave - the Skalpel duet with its electro sounds and the English Yazz Ahmed Quartet.   

Over the past decade, Yazz Ahmed has worked diligently to become one of the game changers on jazz stage. Ahmed grew up in the Gulf state of Bahrain. The trumpeter has successfully integrated into the United Kingdom's multicultural artistic environment; the artistic milieus of extraordinary creativity and have a natural need to create intertwined musical genres. The effect cannot be easily defined and labelled.

Her careered gained momentum in 2017 thanks to the La Saboteuse album, unanimously considered one of the most influential jazz albums of that period. The British monthly Wire named the LP "Jazz Album of the Year", and the popular website Bandcamp qualified it as one of the twenty most important longplays of 2017.

The audience repeatedly referred to one of Miles' most important musical stages from the turn of the 1960s and 1970s ('Bitches Brew', 'In a Silent Way').

Yazz's position has been strengthened by the Polyhymnia album, much applauded, just like the debut one. At the beginning of 2020, the iconic Downbeat Magazine pronounced the artist as one of the 25 musicians who shape the jazz character in the next decade.

The trumpeter Yazz Ahmed will be accompanied by Ralph Wyld - on vibraphone, David Manington - bass and Martin France - drums. They will perform on the stage during the Targi Kielce Jazz Festival Memorial to Miles. 

The Yazz Ahmed Quartet will play on the Grand Stage of the Kielce Cultural Centre on Friday,  22 September at 8.30 pm (right after the concert of the Skalpel duo). Tickets available at the KCK box office and on kck.bilety24.pl 

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