Please note that this show is taking place at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG

Visionary group أحمد [Ahmed] features four of Europe’s preeminent improvising voices: pianist Pat Thomas, double-bassist Joel Grip, drummer Antonin Gerbal and saxophonist Seymour Wright, who will be supported by a set from contemporary/experimental vocalist, movement artist and composer Elaine Mitchener and bassist/producer Neil Charles.
Across their releases Wood Blues (Astral Spirits, 2024), Giant Beauty (Fönstret, 2024), Nights on Saturn (Communication) (Astral Spirits, 2022), Super Majnoon (East Meets West) (Otoroku, 2019), and New Jazz Imagination (Umlaut, 2017), أحمد [Ahmed] work and rework the music of the late Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive music, where profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling.

Abdul-Malik was a NYC bassist, oudist, composer, educator and philosopher who fused aspects of American, Arabic and East African thought, ethics, meanings and beliefs in open and experimental ways to make vital, forward leaning jazz. أحمد [Ahmed] reimagine the notes of Malik as they push for new ground. Melodies respirate, swell, escalate and combust in a driving jazz which yes is technical, yes is accomplished, but ultimately just foot-to-the-floor swings.