London jazz festival: Ambrose Akinmusire/Robert Glasper – review

Various venues, LondonAt one o'clock on Saturday morning in Ronnie Scott's Club, in the opening hours of the 2012 London jazz festival, the phenomenal young California trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his quintet cut loose 15 minutes of fervent music that felt like a fanfare for the whole 10-day extravaganza. Boiling his complex music down into a dramatic short story for a live radio show, Akinmusire blew clusters of whistling high notes that turned into slashing downward runs over an el...

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