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Not for profit jazz development organisation, active since 1982, bringing some of the UK’s leading jazz artists to venues in and around Derby.

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Two of Europe's top women jazz musicians join forces in this terrific band. Josephine is a saxophonist and composer. The music she has written for her latest album refects the music and landscape of the Shetlands. Pianist Alcyona Mick has been leading her own bands for several years and co-leads a duo with Toiu Freestone. THE MUSIC THEY MAKE IN THIS BAND IS MELODIC AND EVOCATIVE.
#tenorsax #josephinedavies #alcyonamick #weatherwards #whirlwindrecordings #derbylive #mjazz by @derby.jazz

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The POCKET ELLINGTON manages what ought to be impossible – creating a classic Ellingtonian sound with just four horns and a rhythm section. But with the help of Alan Barnes, veteran bassist Dave Green and powerhouse drummer Winston Clifford this band delivers.

#dukeellington #tonykofi #alanbarnesjazz #alexwebbsongwriter #davegreenjazz #derbylive#mjazz by @derby.jazz

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Award winning saxophonist & composer Josephine Davies brings her dynamic ensemble Satori to Derby to perform the music from ‘Weatherwards’, their fourth album on Whirlwind Recordings. The music is inspired by Josephine’s Nordic roots in the Shetland Islands, and beautifully weaves together the band’s contemporary jazz background with a hauntingly evocative folk influence. The intricate compositions, coupled with the thrilling interplay between these four musicians, evokes the interconnection of Shetland sea, land, sky, and ever-present wind.

#josephinedavies #sonnyrollins #alcyonamick #derbylive #mjazz by @derby.jazz

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Originally from Derby and now an internatioanally recognised guitarist Phil Robson formed this quartet with US tenor saxophonist Jed Levy in 2017. In NYC they played regularly at the city's top cubs; Smalls, Birdland and the 55 Bar. They're touring Italy and recording an album in November. then kick of their UK tour with this Derby Jazz gig.
#tourlife #touring #italy #uk #jazz #quartet #jedlevy #philrobson #markhodgson #robertogatto #november #december #2025 taken in Dubrek Studios by @derby.jazz

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Fri 14 Nov 2025 09.30 GMT
In April 2022, the wild and inquisitively wilful British free-jazz keyboardist and composer Pat Thomas was improvising with his eyes shut in the company of his quartet أحمد [Ahmed] at Glasgow’s Glue Factory. The music was dedicated to the 1950s-70s legacy of the late Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk bassist, oud player and early global-music pioneer Ahmed Abdul-Malik, the inspiration for the group’s work. When Thomas emerged from his trance, he was astonished to hear that an ecstatic crowd had been dancing the night away around him.
He shouldn’t have been surprised. Since أحمد [Ahmed]’s inception, their collective heat has fused abstract improv and groove music from all over the world: Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, dub, jungle, electronics, and the 1990s free-improv of Derek Bailey, Lol Coxhill and drummer Steve Noble have all inspired Thomas. Saxophonist Seymour Wright has absorbed the sax vocabulary of Evan Parker and the insights into collective improv and avant-swing of AMM drummer and teacher Eddie Prévost. Eclectic partners Joel Grip (bass) and Antonin Gerbal (drums) power and expand these infectious, volatile energies.
The Arabic term sama’a loosely translates as meditative listening to music and poetry, taken from Thomas’s perspective as a follower of Sufism, and this new set’s four tracks manifest that spirit. The opening Ya Annas (Oh, People) joins ghostly split-note sax sounds with graceful bowed-bass figures before turning to a pulsating piano-vamping dance and then a furious melee, while Isma’a (Listen) is a drum’n’bass hook that evolves into hoarsely urgent free-sax improv against exhilaratingly splashy, pummelling piano chords. El Haris (Anxious) resolves brittle, pad-flapping horn exhalations and long-tone harmonies into a gripping robotic strut, and Farah ‘Alaiyna (Joy Upon Us) begins as delightfully dissonant. by @derby.jazz

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Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) are AHMED. 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.
#ahmed #seymourwright #patthomas #joelgrip #antoningerbal #ahmedabdulmalik #jazz #freejazz #impro #improv #improvisation #cafeotodalston #derbyjazz #derbylivemusic by @derby.jazz

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AHMED release their latest album to coincide with their autumn tour.
Oct 19t Stockholm Jazz Festival
Nov 6 Utrecht – Le Guess Who?
Nov 12-15 London Café OTO
NOV 16 DERBY JAZZ
Known for their exhilarating live-to-record albums such as last year's critically acclaimed Wood Blues and Giant Beauty, سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) is the first of two releases that will surface from [Ahmed]’s first studio recording sessions in early 2025.
Since 2014, [Ahmed] أحمد have excavated and re-imagined the music of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, in an ever ongoing search for future music.
#ahmed #seymourwright #patthomas #joelgrip #antoningerbal #ahmedabdulmalik #jazz #freejazz #impro #improv #improvisation #cafeotodalston #derbyjazz #livemusicderby by @derby.jazz

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“We play differently in this context than we do in other contexts,” says Wright. “I’m playing tunes for a start,” he quips, to laughter, before pausing to add, “which is not really something that I do.”
Grip picks up the theme:” Maybe what’s unusual is that we keep a steady rhythm…”
“There’s a tempo – all these things that we’re not associated with,” adds Thomas, before Gerbal joins in:” As a drummer, I see this music as something based on repetitive rhythms, which creates a kind of trance. When we play these Ahmed tunes for the first time…we met totally logically in this musical space.”
“Logically, but surprisingly,” remarks Grip.
Excerpt from an interview in The WIRE Nov.2017

#ahmed #seymourwright #patthomas #joelgrip #antoningerbal #ahmedabdulmalik #jazz #freejazz #impro #improv #improvisation #cafeotodalston #derbyjazz #derbylivemusic by @derby.jazz

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Pat Thomas (piano), Joel Grip (double bass), Antonin Gerbal (drums) and Seymour Wright (alto saxophone) are AHMED. 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.

#patthomas
#seymourwright
#joelgrip
#antoningerbal
#cafeotodalston
#derbyjazz
#derbylivemusic by @derby.jazz

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AHMED's 2024 5CD boxed set of live recordings won 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.
#patthomas
#seymourwright
#joelgrip
#antoningerbal
#cafeotodalston
#derbyjazz
#derbylivemusic
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Sat 02.08.2025 13:00-22:00 | Right Now New Sounds Of Jazz All-Dayer | electricDaisyDerby

Energy levels in jazz are high these days. New bands and audiences are emerging across the country and Derby is right on trend.
RIGHT NOW an all-dayer featuring five emerging bands.

2pm ARJUN CHANDRASEKAR leading on alto saxophone and keyboards digs the tradition: Monk, Ellington and Wayne Shorter all feature. @cliquebaitcommunist

3.30pm BLU.PRNT part of a bigger collective of young musicians, poets, artists and educators in Nottingham. @blu.prntmusic

5.30pm ELLIE'S KATS Flautist and singer Ellie Kennedy leads a set of upbeat standards and originals. @elliekennedymusic

7pm VIKASATI Jacob (keys) and Ant (drums, percussion) use a delicate balance of light and shade to breathe life into their nu-jazz inflected melodies and intricate, dynamic progressions. @vikasatimusic

8.30pm FLORAL PATTERN Is An Alt-Jazz Collective Based Between Derby And Nottingham, Led By Saxophonist and composer Myles Noble blending the raw energy of UK soundsystem culture with the Innovation of the contemporary jazz scene. @flor.alpattern

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/mjazz/right-now-new-sounds-of-jazz/e-joxxkd taken in Electric Daisy Derby by @derby.jazz

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RIGHT NOW: NEW SOUNDS OF JAZZ brought to you by @derby.jazz 🎷

Join this all day celebration of jazz' continuing renewall, at Electric Daisy👌🌿 Five bands making new sounds of jazz, right now!

02 AUG
1-10PM
TICKET LINK IN BIO taken in Electric Daisy Derby by @derby.jazz

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