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- Summary: The latest full-length release from jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire features contributions by Justin Brown, Chiquitamagic, Sam Harris, Kokayi, and the Mivos Quartet.
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- Record Label: Nonesuch
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Feb 4, 2025Honey from a Winter Stone is arguably the most forward-thinking, emotionally vulnerable, and moving album in Akinmusire's catalog. It offers an intimate musical language that transcends genres while being at home in them all.
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Feb 4, 2025Chamber music yields to hip-hop which surrenders to jazz (Harris is terrific) and back and forth through several sections of tension and release that somehow slithers into the ether, leaving us wanting even more. There’s just nothing like this out there unless you retreat back six years to Origami Harvest. Akinmusire has again delivered a fascinating and oddly irresistible project.
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The WireFeb 4, 2025The various elements at work on these five finely etched pieces rarely settle into any single pattern or vibe, but they also never feel like pastiche. It’s all music for the trumpeter – whose playing has never sounded more mature and exploratory – and every component of the music is as rigorous and evolved as his own vision. [Mar 2025, p.44]
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MojoFeb 4, 2025Astonishingly innovative. [Mar 2025, p.89]