Billy Taylor Jazz Residency Artist

THE AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET  Reviews

“So, what’s so special about this trumpet player? Akinmusire combines three brilliant instrumental merits: a virtuosity of speed and fluency, an ability to generate new kinds of patterns and intervals and a freshly conceived approach to sound.”
– Will Layman, POP MATTERS
 
“At this early stage of his career, Ambrose Akinmusire is already showing signs of being a major creative figure in the making, one who realises that the jazz aesthetic is as much about content as form, imagination as execution.”
– Jazzwise Magazine
 
“Akinmusire and his band demonstrated a remarkably fluid, adventurous interplay and patiently imaginative way with melody that sounded as steeped in the music's history as it was hard-wired with the sound of something new. With a chameleonic tone that can sigh, flutter or soar, Akinmusire sounds less like rising star than one that was already at great heights and just waiting to be discovered.”
– Los Angeles Times
 
“Akinmusire is fond of languid, rippling patterns that emerge, echo and gradually fade into the distance. They certainly don’t fade from memory, however. Despite their lack of showiness, compositions like ‘Aroca’ ...manage to work their way under the skin delivering a tickle one moment and an electric jolt the next.”  
– Variety

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