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the Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet at Bowker Auditorium
Courtesy of UMass Fine Arts Center | Posted on July 7, 2015
Where
Bowker Auditorium
121 Stockbridge Hall, University Of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, MA
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When
Thu, November 19, 2015
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Ambrose Akinmusire
trumpetAbout
Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (pronounced ah-kin-MOO-sir-ee) cut his jazz teeth playing professionally while still in high school. Inspired by legendary saxophonists Joe Henderson and Steve Coleman, he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and released his first album in 2007. Called “a thrilling trumpeter and astute bandleader [with a] unique spark in his playing” (The New Yorker), Akinmusire has moved to the front ranks of progressive jazzmen, leading his quartet and contributing his burnished tone to projects with the OSSO String Quartet and vocalists Becca Stevens and Theo Bleckmann.