16.11.2025 4pm | أحمد (Ahmed)| Derby Chapel Street Arts Centre DE1 3GU
Schedule
Sun, 16 Nov, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Chapel Street, Derby, DE1 3, United Kingdom | Derby, EN
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[Ahmed] is an international quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone). Together,Ahmed re-arrange and re-imagine in real time the music of composer, bassist and oud player Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993). Their 2024 5CD boxed set of live recordings made at Fylkingen in Stockholm has received rave reviews and rankings from jazz journalists and critics across Europe, USA and UK. They’ve played major venues and festivals in; New York, Istanbul, Paris, Berlin, London, Glasgow, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Finland and Italy. Their gigs in the UK outside London are rare as hen's teeth.“Don’t think I’ve ever heard a more intense hour of music. Unbelievably great.” GEOFF DYER novelist and jazz writer.
19th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll. 2024 10th AHMED Giant Beauty An international poll of over 200 jazz journalists and critics who are asked to rank their top 10 albums of the year. Their lists are subsequently amalgamated into a top 60 list. Most of the 60 albums were by established US artists on major labels. Tom Hull who co-ordinated this year’s poll commented "If we had a system for handicapping records — compensating for how little known the artists were, how poorly distributed the labels, how little publicity they got, and possibly how un-pop the music was — their placing would be an unprecedented triumph. They’re only the second UK/Europe album ever to crack our top 10 (the first was Sons of Kemet in 2021, but on Universal’s Impulse!
THE WIRE 2024 – 1st AHMED Giant Beauty (all musics). A globally distributed magazine that celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more.
JAZZWISE – UK mainstream jazz magazine. AHMED Giant Beauty was their highest ranking UK recording of 2024
AHMED has deep Derby connections. Seymour Wright grew up in Derby (in Derby Jazz even). He's the son of Geoff Wright who’s been running Derby Jazz since 1982 and helped on the door at dozens of Derby Jazz gigs when he was a kid and first met Pat Thomas when Pat stayed at the family house when playing and leading workshops for Derby Jazz over several years. Derby Jazz was very early on Pat Thomas’s case. He first played for us in 1986 and we have been one of his most consistent promoters.
https://www.derbylive.co.uk/whats-on/derby-jazz-ahmed/
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