Akinmusire can write a line, a roving melody full of longing and emotion and, on stage, stretch it for all it has. The first song of the night sounded like an already-released track off of A Rift in ...

In a career marked by a succession of creative triumphs, Ambrose Akinmusire has just delivered his most concise and telling musical statement yet. It might seem strange to describe the Oakland-reared ...

There’s some virtuoso playing by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quartet on the new double album A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard. But Akinmusire says he doesn’t remember a lot ...

Sometimes the simplest ideas make the strongest impressions. Towards the end of an engrossing set, Edinburgh Jazz Festival’s poster star, Californian trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire played a one note ...

The 2017 Ecstatic Music Festival is underway at the Kaufman Center through May 13 featuring collaborations between artists in the indie/alt world and the modern classical world. On February 18, the ...

The Bay Area trumpet player broke out in jazz over a decade ago. A new album by his quartet, on the tender spot of every calloused moment, shows just how pretty Akinmusire can play. This is FRESH AIR.

The gauzy, elusive music that trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire played during his first set Saturday night at Constellation illuminated why he ranks among the most distinctive and forward-looking ...

Although Ambrose Akinmusire’s latest Blue Note effort, the imagined savior is far easier to paint, is primarily an instrumental release (save for a few songs with guest vocalists), the ...