Trumpeter Akinmusire's studio output has been steady since his 2008 album Prelude To Cora, and this double album recorded in performance at the storied New York venue is an assured milestone in his career to date. There are patented Ambrosims both in terms of playing and writing – that almost flute-like swoon and smear of tone; brooding minor themes full of non-linearity and melodic asides arriving unforeseen. When the trumpeter says that, although he and his ensemble play ‘a lot’, there is also a spare Chopin quality to what they do, he tells no lie. The shadowy, crepuscular character of much of the material is well to the fore, the result of which can be an intimacy that honours the memory of Booker Little and the living legacy of the great Ron Miles. The richness of Akinmusire's timbre and phrasing is such that the absence of a reed is not really felt, and his quartet, in any case, is a highly accomplished small group in contemporary jazz. The players are capable of covering the excitingly wide spectrum of the elegiac and the energetic, and the various points of intersection between the two, facilitated in no small measure by drummer Justin Brown's superlative variations of hard swing, percolating funk and cleverly stuttered march beats. A notable coming of age.