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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Mar 11, 2014
- Summary: The jazz trumpeter's second release on the Blue Note label with hi with his quintet was self-produced.
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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Genre(s): Jazz, Avant-Garde, Modern Creative, Post-Bop, Modern Composition, Avant-Garde Jazz
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Mar 20, 2014Ambrose Akinmusire, with his two most recent recordings, stakes a claim as one of the very best musicians in jazz--or any other style of music. He won’t be contained. Neither will your emotions as you soak up this daring, fulfilling, perfectly crafted 80 minutes of music.
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Mar 20, 2014The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint is provocative: its moodiness, myriad musical directions, and 79-minute length may be initially off-putting. What is revealed with repeated listening, however, is that this set's achievement is commensurate with its ambition.
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Mar 20, 2014Mr. Akinmusire has a strong aesthetic compass, and as a bandleader, he keeps a steady hand on the wheel; he’s not just stumbling into the album’s shadowy and unsettled mood.
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Mar 20, 2014Akinmusire generally resists the swaggering shows of force that can mark some young talents, but the record is loaded with strikingly expressive highlights.
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Apr 1, 2014
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