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When The Heart Emerges Glistening [Import]

Ambrose Akinmusire Audio CD
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By the time the lone standard “What’s New?” arrives with a wink 11 tracks into trumpeter-composer Ambrose Akinmusire’s tour de force Blue Note debut When The Heart Emerges Glistening, the song’s title has become a rhetorical question. The unneeded answer: Everything. Akinmusire has delivered nothing less than a manifesto, a Search for the New Land, a personal ... Read more in Amazon's Ambrose Akinmusire Store

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  • Audio CD (2 May 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Import
  • Label: EMI
  • ASIN: B004NCOQMY
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 77,392 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. Confessions To My Unborn Daughter 8:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  5. Far But Few Between 1:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. With Love 6:51£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Regret (No More) 4:36£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Ayneh (Cora) 1:09£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. My Name Is Oscar 3:48£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen10. The Walls Of Lechuguilla 5:29£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen11. What's New 3:04£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Tear Stained Suicide Manifesto 4:55£0.89  Buy MP3 
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CD .. Glistening

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5.0 out of 5 stars All growed up 9 May 2011
By Steve Keen TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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Always good to see the kids all growed up and doing well. I first heard Ambrose Akinmusire over a decade ago, on stage with Steve Coleman on the South Bank. He had a fiery style and came over as clearly self-assured on stage despite, or perhaps because of, his youth. Since then I've seen his name checked by Joni Mitchell - praise indeed - in Michelle Mercer's Will You Take Me As I Am, and this set confirms the potential with a solid collection of virtuoso pieces, with Akinmusire backed by an excellent team of musicians.

The opener, Confessions To My Unborn Daughter, enters gently with just Akinmusire playing solo. The next phase, as the rest of the band join in, is marked by rapid arpeggios on the trumpet and Walter Smith's tenor sax. Later on Smith's sax has a Coltrane-esque sound about it.

Co-producer Jason Moran contributes some nice Fender Rhodes on track 4, Henya, which also features some interesting glissandi from the trumpet, a device Akinmusire also uses well at the beginning of track 7, Regret, a duo also featuring a graceful piano accompaniment from Gerald Clayton. There's also some standout piano from Clayton on the previous track, With Love, underpinned by some rumbling and crackling drum and cymbal work from Justin Brown. Brown's own prowess is well demonstrated on My Name Is Oscar, which is mostly him, apart from the leader intoning the occasional word or phrase, which reminded me a little of Ginsberg or a Dada poem.

Without wishing to detract at all from my overall evaluation of this collection, I have to admit I don't find this as exciting as some of the other Coleman alumni's work, such as (also trumpeter) Graham Haynes's The Griot's Footsteps, where the music, like Coleman's, experiments with genres and instrumentation, even beating him to the punch with the use of the sitar. Akinmusire has instead gone off more in the direction of Greg Osby, leaving behind the M-Base groove. It's a little like the little boy who runs away from the circus to join a bank. He's an excellent banker, but the bank lacks the frisson of the circus. The music is mostly fairly gentle stuff, with only track 10, The Walls Of Lechuguilla, showing any signs of the funky concoctions of Akinmusire's mentor, although it's probably closer to Bird and Diz.

Nevertheless, this is an enjoyable set, nowhere more so than the penultimate title, Tear Stained Suicide Manifesto, a tender piece with some particularly affective piano, complemented perfectly by Harish Raghavan's bass, which growls menacingly at times. Towards the end the horns raise the volume to an emotional climax, before gently bringing us back down to earth for the ending.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ambient and free 17 Jun 2012
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I recently saw this artist in concert which prompted me to buy the album. I've sometimes been disappointed by the recordings of American jazz artists who have been brilliant live but have seemed over-produced on CD. In short, this is a great album.

Ambrose Akinmusire has an orginal style. He has been compared to Miles Davis elsewhere, although his phrasing reminded me of the free jazz trumpeter Don Cherry. A lot of space is given to the sidemen here and the interaction between sax and trumpet is particularly good. These compositions are carefully paced and each musician seems to develop the ideas of the others, rather than competing against each other. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A melancholy masterpiece. 16 Jan 2012
By Jazzrook TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Virtuoso trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire previously played with saxophonist Steve Coleman and has now recorded this beautiful album for BLUE NOTE co-produced by pianist Jason Moran.
The remaining personnel includes Walter Smith III(ten); Gerald Clayton(p); Harish Ragharan(bs); Justin Brown(d) & Daniel Sadownick(perc).
This subtle, melancholy music is reminiscent of Miles Davis although Akinmusire claims to be influenced by the little-known trumpeter Ron Miles and also Booker Little.
Ambrose Akinmusire is not exactly a household name at present but this magnificent CD should bring his music to a wider audience.
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