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FourOneOne Celebrates
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trans Pecos
Celebrate a great year of communal musicking against the odds and bid adieu to 2025 with a free party featuring performances by Chispa and FourOneOne's new "house band": Luke Stewart, Lesley Mok, Alexis Marcelo, DJ Jeff Brown and Che Chen, who will be cutting it up and serving as extemporaneous rhythm section for a parade of special guests. The night will begin and end with sets from Bedstuy's finest, DJ Jeff Brown. Free with RSVP.
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أحمد [Ahmed] in Residence
February 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
ShapeShifter
FourOneOne is proud to present the UK, Sweden, and France-based أحمد [Ahmed] for a three-day residency in New York. أحمد [Ahmed] is a jazz quartet conceptually grounded in the life of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, the visionary 20th-century New York City bassist, oudist, composer, educator and philosopher. While their approach does include playing compositions written by Abdul-Malik, أحمد [Ahmed] is no repertory band. The group—pianist Pat Thomas and saxophonist Seymour Wright, both from the UK, Swedish double bassist Joel Grip and French drummer Antonin Gerbal—consider themselves improvisers first, using Abdul-Malik’s thematic material as jumping off points for radical extrapolations. Together they explore, in Wright’s words, the “aggregate awkward wealth” of Ahmed’s traces, including his recordings, teachings, writings, ethics, and practices of experimentation.
