Skip to main content

Browse Mode

Composer: Jason Yarde

Composer Jason Yarde
spacerimage

Introduction

Introduction

Jason Yarde is one of the UK's hottest new jazz talents. He's a saxophonist, producer and arranger as well as a composer. Jason's worked in jazz, hip-hop and urban styles. He wrote a piece – Where will it take you? – for SoundJunction. Find out how he did it from this page.

Jason Yarde

Feature

Feature

Composing: a love–hate relationship

Close-up of a double bass

Making music for an audience takes a good dose of self-confidence. Jason talks about the danger of losing faith in the piece of music you're working on

Read Full Article

Articles

Articles
Jason Yarde's sketch for Where will it take you?, written on the back of an envelope

Composer Jason Yarde explains how he finds inspiration by visualising a piece of music as a sort of landscape, and how this helps him to arrange the piece as a whole

Find out more

Jason Yarde

Jason Yarde is one of the busiest composers, arrangers and producers in Britain today – working with jazz groups, rappers, samplers and many others. He is also a fine jazz saxophonist ...

Find out more

Eska Mtungwasi singing

Use the Explorer tool to explore the different parts that make up Jason Yarde's song, Where will it take you?

Find out more