Новая работа американского джазового музыканта (труба).
Co-produced by Akinmusire and his label mate and mentor Jason Moran, the album’s 12 songs (10 of which were composed by Akinmusire) feature the 28-year-old trumpeter’s young quintet (tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown), a close-knit group of longtime friends and frequent collaborators that breathes a remarkable collective identity.
The New York Times wrote that the quintet „seems destined for much wider recognition,“ and described their unique sound as „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.“
Rezensionen
„Watch out trumpet players: vielseitig spannendes Debüt.“ (Rolling Stone, 04 / 2011)