Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song
Ambrose Akinmusire | Bill Frisell | Herlin Herlin
Ambrose Akinmusire’s first four studio albums were musically restless, deploying hip-hop textures, sometimes jagged classical strings and rapped passages which...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2024
Ambrose Akinmusire: Beauty Is Enough
Since his 2008 debut Prelude, Ambrose Akinmusire has been nothing if not adventurous; and this latest release consolidates his ambition...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023
Ambrose Akinmusire: On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment
Ambrose Akinmusire | Harish Raghavan | Justin Brown | Sam Harris
Putting the extreme vulnerability and complexity of the African-American condition – with possible solace amid the sufferation – into a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020
Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior is Far Easier To Paint
This is trumpeter Akinmusire's second album on the Blue Note label that follows the critically acclaimed When the Heart Emerges...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014
Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard
Ambrose Akinmusire | Harish Raghavan | Justin Brown | Sam Harris
Trumpeter Akinmusire's studio output has been steady since his 2008 album Prelude To Cora, and this double album recorded in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017
Billy Childs: The Winds of Change
Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley
The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where The River Goes
Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel
With Rising Grace in 2016, the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel confirmed his stature on the world stage all the more...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
Tom Harrell: Something Gold, Something Blue
Ambrose Akinmusire | Charles Altura | Jonathan Blake | Omer Avital | Tom Harrell | Ugonna Okegwo
An interesting trumpet pairing of one of jazz's older guard (not yet ‘old’, it should be said) in Tom Harrell...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017
Mette Juul: Moon On My Shoulder
Ambrose Akinmusire | Lars Danielsson | Mette Juul | Morten Lund | Nikolaj Hess
On this follow-up to her 2010 debut album, Coming In From The Dark, vocalist Mette Juul puts together an...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2013
Mary Halvorson: Code Girl
Ambrose Akinmusire | Amirtha Kidambi | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Tomas Fujiwara
“It is not predictable, my mind” sings Amirtha Kidambi on the opening track on Mary Halvorson's seventh album as leader....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018
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