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Ambrose Akinmusire
Meet the artist
An Oakland-born trumpeter and composer with a highly shaded tone and adventurous writing. His ensembles explore the relationship between sound, silence, personal experience and the wider social world. His trumpet moves from slender, breath-inflected notes to piercing attacks.
Melodies include breaks and silences, leaving space for the listener. In small ensembles, piano and rhythm section respond to these fragments while sustaining tension. Black experience and social awareness inform the work, but its finely shaded feelings also live directly in the sound, where beauty and unease coexist.
Where to start listening
In on the tender spot of every calloused moment, attend to changes in intensity and to silences that hold tension between short phrases.
2020on the tender spot of every calloused moment
Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire's quartet explores Black experience through deeply shaded trumpet playing and responsive ensemble writing. Quiet fragments and intense passages carry equal expressive weight.
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