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A jazz quartet playing on a small stage under a canopy round exposed bulb lighting infant of a small audience.

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet

Wednesday, August 16, 2017 at 8PM
Theater

Jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire comes to EMPAC with his celebrated quartet. Signed to the legendary label Blue Note Records, Akinmusire is a rising star in American Jazz. At 19, he began touring professionally with saxophonist Steve Colemen, before studying with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Terrence Blanchard at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz.

In 2007, he won both the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition. Akinmusire has since worked with jazz icons from Vijay Iyer and Aaron Parks to Esperanza Spalding and Jason Moran, recording two albums as a bandleader, including 2014’s The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint. In 2015, he contributed to rapper Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-nominated album To Pimp a Butterfly.

Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet

Sam Harris — Piano
Harish Raghavan — Bass
Jeremy Dutton — Drums

Main Image: Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet on the theater stage in 2017. Photo: EMPAC.

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Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet
Wednesday 16
8:00 PM
August 2017
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