She has worked with Toshiko Akiyoshi, Arturo O’Farrill, Ash Walker, the London Jazz Orchestra, and also recorded and performed with Radiohead, Lee Perry, ABC, Swing Out Sister, Joan as Police Woman, Tarek Yamani and Amel Zen, and the band These New Puritans.

[2] Her Alhaan Al Siduri was a suite written with the support of Birmingham Jazzlines.

Previously, during her year as a composer at the LSO Soundhub, she had a quarter-tone flugelhorn specially made, allowing her to use scales specific to Arabic music.

[8] Named after the Greek muse of music, poetry and dance, a character whom Ahmed describes as "a goddess for the arts", it is a six-movement suite devoted to "six women of exceptional qualities, role models with whom [she] felt a strong bond": Rosa Parks, Malala Yousafzai, Ruby Bridges, Haaifa Al-Mansour, Barbara Thompson and the Suffragettes.

Since it was first created in 2015, the project has grown, Yazz Ahmed adding new elements and expanding the group of collaborators.