Ambrose Akinmusire September 14, 2010

EMI’s Blue Note Records has signed jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ambrose Akinmusire. The 28 year-old winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will head into the studio this Fall to record his major label debut with labelmate Jason Moran as co-producer.
“Mr. Akinmusire is among the latest to put together a quintet that seems destined for much wider recognition,” recently wrote critic Ben Ratliff in The New York Times. “It’s limber, straight-ahead jazz with mystery and pop instincts that gets around most of the old, pervasive mainstream influences, both of trumpet playing and bandleading.”

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