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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Apr 5, 2011
- Summary: The second album for the jazz trumpeter from California was coproduced with Jason Moran.
- Record Label: Blue Note
- Genre(s): Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Straight-Ahead Jazz
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Apr 18, 2011When the Heart Emerges Glistening is a gem. It's a jazz record to rave about and to push on your friends.
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Apr 18, 2011Akinmusire has chosen to challenge listeners, exploring free territory where Smith squeaks and squawks his way into the wilderness.
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Apr 18, 2011His harmonies have a louche charm, his trumpet sound has a fascinating vocal intimacy, and he makes lightning-fast interplay with the quintet, especially sax player Walter Smith III.
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Apr 18, 2011When the Heart Emerges is a breakthrough jazz album that reminds us that in this music, listening closely is of equal importance to speaking out. Akinmusire excels at both.
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Apr 28, 2011Akinmusire's arresting sound and the collective strength of his band of long-time friends--the dry-toned, Wayne Shorter-like saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Harish Raghavan and drummer Justin Brown--power it all.
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May 31, 2011Over 13 tunes, Akinmusire and his very hot quintet (featuring Walter Smith III on tenor sax and a great drummer, Justin Brown) take the basic format of post-bop straightahead jazz and tease it around with absolute authority.
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MojoMay 18, 2011A beguiling marriage of tradition and modernism. [May 2011, p.107]
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