Jawwaad Taylor is a trumpeter, composer, producer and educator. He regularly collaborates and performs with MacArthur Fellow Carrie Mae Weems and other visual artists, combining his compositions with their visual work. He is a founding member of Shape of Broad Minds, whose critically acclaimed album, Craft of the Lost Ark, brought Taylor international attention. Taylor performs with jazz, free jazz, improvisers, and hip-hop artists worldwide. As co-founder and producer of the band The Young Mothers, he merges modern jazz, improvisation, hip hop and indie rock. Taylor’s list of performances includes countless national and international music festivals, including the Hove Festival, Sonar Festival, and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Taylor is an alumnus of the Red Bull Music Academy and is committed to his hometown of Houston, Texas, where he studied and participated in workshops with Pauline Oliveros and was a member of the Deep Listening Institute and Nameless Sound. He attended Prairie View A&M University.