- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Mar 11, 2014
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Universal acclaim- based on 5 Ratings
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Apr 1, 2014A Beautiful, thoughtfull, provocative and sincronized peace of art. It sleezes to every kind of beat and sound bringing us to an imaginative narrative with dialogs and a virtuosly ending. The best jazz album out this year.
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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, 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, 2014Akinmusire generally resists the swaggering shows of force that can mark some young talents, but the record is loaded with strikingly expressive highlights.