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أحمد [Ahmed]
UK, Sweden, France
Pat Thomas - piano
Seymour Wright - alto saxophone
Joel Grip - double bass
Antonin Gerbal - drums
For going on eleven years, pan-European quartet ﺃﺣﻤﺪ [Ahmed] has been exploring "jazz as shared research" through the ideas, inspirations, and ideals of Ahmed Abdul Malik. An African-American oud player and bassist, who also played with Monk and Coltrane, Malik was already exploring the "Sounds of Africa" in the mid-20th century, as one of his albums from 1963 was titled, thus identifying concrete influences and connections to American jazz, whose word origins he also recognizes among African Muslims as an expression „for looking into a matter more deeply" – just as ﺃﺣﻤﺪ [Ahmed] do in their "music as a medium of thought," while improvising over Ahmed Abdul Malik's compositions.
Pat Thomas - piano
Seymour Wright - alto saxophone
Joel Grip - double bass
Antonin Gerbal - drums
For going on eleven years, pan-European quartet ﺃﺣﻤﺪ [Ahmed] has been exploring "jazz as shared research" through the ideas, inspirations, and ideals of Ahmed Abdul Malik. An African-American oud player and bassist, who also played with Monk and Coltrane, Malik was already exploring the "Sounds of Africa" in the mid-20th century, as one of his albums from 1963 was titled, thus identifying concrete influences and connections to American jazz, whose word origins he also recognizes among African Muslims as an expression „for looking into a matter more deeply" – just as ﺃﺣﻤﺪ [Ahmed] do in their "music as a medium of thought," while improvising over Ahmed Abdul Malik's compositions.
