Daoud / French Quarter 2026

daoud, the “problem child” of jazz, defies the genre’s rules with music born from a sense of inadequacy—playful yet grave, chaotic yet tender.

His upcoming 2025 album ok (ACT) is a personal manifesto of collapse, repetition, and renewal. Embracing fragility and imperfection, his raw visual and musical worlds mix irony with sincerity.

Since his acclaimed 2024 release GOOD BOY, daoud and his band have electrified stages from Ronnie Scott’s to Montreux, blending restraint and explosive energy while pursuing an ever-freer, uncompromising vision.