أحمد [Ahmed] is the quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Joel Grip (double bass) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). They make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation, set deep into an understanding of jazz and the obscure depths of its history.
The group work and rework the music of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik, producing a stamping, swinging, relentlessly propulsive music where profundity and physicality root back to ecstatic feeling. It excavates, reinhabits and uses anew the now overlooked documents and fragmentary plans of his mid-20th-century synthetic vision, producing a new jazz imagination for the 21st century.
