Tag: Ambrose Akinmusire

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The first song on Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings by the duo of Mary Halvorson and Ambrose Akinmusire sounds like it could be the last. Akinmusire initiates a bugle call on his trumpet, a funereal albeit slightly smeared air which retains more than a vestige of martial clarity while sounding decidedly crestfallen. As he reaches a lofty and stirring peak...

In the best way the borders feel ever more porous when it comes to contemporary jazz. Beyond the infusion of Latin American and West African rhythms or European chamber music into martial airs, piano rags and hard blues grooves - aspects of jazz which are scarcely modes but for many decades now constitutional parts of the form - it...

It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...