Ambrose Akinmusire’s first jazz show was watching the Art Ensemble of Chicago play at a club. 25 years and six albums later, the acclaimed jazz musician is giving tribute to that performance with his newest release. Listen here:
on Blue Note this June 5.Ambrose Akinmusire was in the eighth grade, a budding trumpeter in Oakland, Calif., when he made his first excursion to a jazz club. Through a radio contest, he'd won tickets to the local mainstay, Yoshi's, unaware of the creative portal he was opening.," says Akinmusire, referring to that singular force, and the farthest thing from a conventional jazz group."These cats came out with their full makeup on, wearing these costumes.
Now, a quarter-century later, Akinmusire is one of the most acclaimed jazz artists of his generation, a trumpeter of deep expressive resources and a composer of kaleidoscopic vision. Because he's on the mainstream roster of Blue Note Records, with a band that uses the post-bop language as a springboard, he isn't often placed in the same avant-garde continuum as The Art Ensemble. But Akinmusire makes that connection himself with", scheduled for release June 5.The"Mr.
Akinmusire — speaking from his home in Oakland, where he returned in 2016 after three years in Los Angeles and a decade in New York — tells NPR Music that he was humbled to witness Mitchell's dauntless commitment to discovery."It was an amazing experience to see someone at that level, and an older musician, still searching," he says."So that tune is based off some of the initial conversations that we had on that day that I met him.
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