Ambrose Akinmusire
Ambrose Akinmusire (born May 1, 1982 in Oakland ) is an American jazz trumpeter , band leader and composer .
Live and act
Akinmusire was of Nigerian parents and grew up in North Oakland . Early mentors were trumpeter Robert Porter and pianist Ed Kelly . After attending Berkeley High School, he received a scholarship to study at the Manhattan School of Music a . a. at Dick Oatts and Lew Soloff . A promoter at this stage was Steve Coleman , of which he was a member of Five Elements ( Resistance Is Futile , 2001). He then studied at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance with Terence Blanchard and Billy Childs , where he a. a. worked with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter , and in the postgraduate program at the University of Southern California .
In 2007 he won the Thelonious Monk Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Solo Trumpet Competition ; he recorded with Alan Pasqua in the same year and put a first album ( Prelude: to Cora ) on Fresh Sound / New Artists . In 2008 he performed with Vijay Iyer from the Chicago Jazz Festival and participated in Esperanza Spalding's album Esperenza .
In 2011, the Blue Note album When the Heart Emerges Glistening followed . a. contains the poem Tear Suicide Manifesto , which he set to music . In addition to his regular quintet, pianist Jason Moran , who acted as co-producer, also took part. The Downbeat awarded the album four stars and praised it: " Clearly, something special and personal is at work here, a vision of jazz that is bigger than camps, broader and more intellectually restless than blowing sessions ." On their European tour, the quintet performed a remarkable concert at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club . In 2014 he released the album The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint on Blue Note , followed in 2017 by the live album A Rift in Decorum: Live at the Village Vanguard , and in 2018 the studio production Origami Harvest , which was reviewed with the rare five stars on Down Beat . In 2020 he released the album On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note).
Prizes and awards
In June 2011 Akinmusire won two Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards , both for Promising Talent and Best Trumpeter of the Year . At the end of 2011 he received the Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy . In 2012 he won the Down Beat Critics Poll for Best Trumpeter; In 2015 he received the Paul Acket Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival .
Web links
- Akinmusire's website
- Works by and about Ambrose Akinmusire in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short portrait at Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition
- Ambrose Akinmusire at Allmusic (English)
- Ambrose Akinmusire at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Biographical portrait at All About Jazz . Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Review of the album When the Heart Emerges Glistening on NPR
- ↑ Chicago Jazz Festival 2008 Vijay Iyer. May 26, 2018, accessed January 14, 2019 .
- ^ Nate Chinen, Portrait of the Musician in The New York Times
- ↑ Information about the album at Jazzwise Magazine
- ↑ The Guardian of May 20, 2011: Ambrose Akinmusire at Ronnie Scott's, London - Review
- ↑ Meeting (***** Down Beat)
- ↑ Report at ejazzNews ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
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SURNAME | Akinmusire, Ambrose |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz composer and trumpeter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Oakland |