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  • Summary: The fourth full-length release from British-Bahraini trumpeter/composer Yazz Ahmed features contributions from such artists as Natacha Atlas, Brigitte Beraha, Martin France, Randolph Matthews, and Alba Nacinovich, and Corrina Silvester.
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  1. Mar 5, 2025
    100
    A Paradise In The Hold is one of the best albums you are going to listen to in 2025. It is focused and whole, while also being as breathtaking and wild as the land from which it derives its inspiration.
  2. Mar 5, 2025
    90
    A Paradise in the Hold is a masterpiece, a work of tremendous sensitivity and creative insight brought to life by a musical visionary capable of advancing and remaking 21st century jazz.
  3. Mar 5, 2025
    80
    Paradise... brims with life and imagination, humming with the brilliant paradox of a communal spirit imbued with Ahmed’s creative imprint over every note. [Feb 2025, p.32]
  4. Mojo
    Mar 5, 2025
    80
    Merges jazz and Arabian classical music with invention and panache. [Apr 2025, p.87]