[Ahmed]

Super Majnoon [east Meets West] [Ahmed]

The quartet of Pat Thomas (piano), Antonin Gerbal (drums), Joel Grip (bass) and Seymour Wright (alto

saxophone) - make music of heavy rhythm, repetition and syncopation set deep into an understanding

of jazz and the obscure depths of its history. On 'Super Majnoon ' the group work and rework the music

of the late musician Ahmed Abdul-Malik to create a stamping, swinging, propulsive record where

profundity and physicality root right back to ecstatic feeling. Ahmed reimagine the notes of Malik as

they push for the trajectory of free jazz to emerge from the clichés and cloy neo-classicisms of current

'improvised music'.