Ambrose Akinmusire – review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonThe 29-year-old Californian trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire sets the mind searching for comparisons – and in his case, they're with some of the biggest names in the most African-American incarnations of jazz, Miles Davis included. But newcomer Akinmusire isn't just a hotshot virtuoso – the power of his work comes as much from its context, a young band of long-time friends and associates. Its wily and resourceful tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III is right up in Akinmusire'...

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