Ambrose Akinmusire - Beauty Is Enough

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Described by NPR Music as "a trumpeter of deep expressive resources and a composer of kaleidoscopic vision," Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics. He is a rigorous practitioner with an uncompromising dedication to creation.

"Playing solo has just been something that's been in the back of my head," Akinmusire says. The appeal, he adds, is the beauty that lives in sitting with oneself — and that being enough." "I think when you have a lot of technique and you can play almost everything that's in your head, it's hard to commit to beauty. It's hard to not do the flashy stuff," says Akinmusire. "So I wanted to do a solo project that is just about sitting in the center of the beauty. The center of self, which is, for me, beauty."