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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Ambrose Akinmusire is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 5% of all live performers. Based on 9 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Ambrose Akinmusire is rated as an amazing live performer, with many notable strengths. Ambrose Akinmusire concert reviews describe live shows and performances as high-energy, lyrical, thrilling, and rhythmic.
Akinmusire was born and raised in Oakland, California. Before he was eighteen, Ambrose had already performed with such famed musicians as saxophonists Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Steve Coleman, and drummer Billy Higgins.
HAS PERFORMED with
Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet
CRITIC concert REVIEWS
The Guardian (UK)
April 30, 2018
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Akinmusire has lately been composing more and working with string quartets and genre-bending singers such as Theo Bleckmann and Cold Specks.
Leading a quartet of like-minded musicians who prefer subtlety over noise and delicacy over bombast, Akinmusire presented solos of sustained creativity and invention.
Akinmusire the prizewinning 33-year-old musician from California and one of the most expressive and articulate trumpeters in any kind of contemporary music is on a two-night stopover at the Pizza Express Jazz Club with his long-running quartet.
Initially a protege of the saxophonist and rhythmic innovator Steve Coleman Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet has enjoyed an extraordinarily rapid ascent to the highest level of international jazz performance.
With his hyper-talented and youthful quintet the 29-year-old Californian delivered a set in Bristol that rang all the changes from the soft and lyrical to high-energy heat.
For this short tour Akinmusire's group is supported by British pianist Robert Mitchell's idiom-twisting and rhythmically needle-sharp trio 3iO so the whole package amounts to an absorbing insight into the international state of jazz's cutting edge.
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