Library — Trumpet

Ambrose Akinmusire

5 albums as leader and 13 as sideman (2008–2026), each listed chronologically.

As Leader · 5

Prelude

Prelude

2008 · Fresh Sound New Talent

As LeaderTrumpet / Producer
When the Heart Emerges Glistening

When the Heart Emerges Glistening

2011 · Blue Note

As LeaderTrumpet / Vocals / Producer✎ Note
The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint

The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint

2014 · Blue Note

As LeaderTrumpet / Keyboards / Percussion / Producer✎ Note
A Rift in Decorum

A Rift in Decorum

2017 · Blue Note

As LeaderTrumpet / Producer✎ Note
on the tender spot of every calloused moment

on the tender spot of every calloused moment

2020 · Blue Note

As LeaderTrumpet / Electric Piano / Producer

As Sideman · 13

Invisible Cinema

Invisible Cinema

Aaron Parks

2008 · Blue Note

SidemanTrumpet✎ Note
Live in Paris

Live in Paris

Walter Smith III

2009 · Criss Cross

SidemanTrumpet
Form

Form

Danny Grissett

2009 · Criss Cross Jazz

SidemanTrumpet
III

III

Walter Smith III

2010 · Criss Cross Jazz

SidemanTrumpet
Sound Travels

Sound Travels

Jack DeJohnette

2012 · eOne

SidemanTrumpet
Frame Of Reference

Frame Of Reference

Ben Van Gelder

2012 · BvG Music

SidemanTrumpet
That Nepenthetic Place

That Nepenthetic Place

Dayna Stephens

2013 · Sunnyside

SidemanTrumpet
Rising Grace

Rising Grace

Wolfgang Muthspiel

2016 · ECM Records

SidemanTrumpet
StandArt

StandArt

Tigran Hamasyan

2022 · Nonesuch

SidemanTrumpet
The Glass Hours

The Glass Hours

Linda May Han Oh

2023 · Biophilia

SidemanTrumpet
Street Of Minarets

Street Of Minarets

Dhafer Youssef

2023 · Back Beat Edition

SidemanTrumpet
The Winds Of Change

The Winds Of Change

Billy Childs

2023 · Mack Avenue

SidemanTrumpet
Kind Of Now - The Pulse Of Miles Davis

Kind Of Now - The Pulse Of Miles Davis

Gregory Hutchinson

2026 · Warner Music Arts

SidemanTrumpet

Notes on these albums · 3

2011 · When the Heart Emerges Glistening

When the Heart Emerges Glistening
When the Heart Emerges Glistening
Ambrose Akinmusire · 2011

When the Heart Emerges GlisteningWhen the Heart Emerges GlisteningWhen the Heart Emerges GlisteningAmbrose Akinmusire · 2011 (2011) announced Ambrose AkinmusireAmbrose AkinmusireAmbrose Akinmusireアンブローズ・アキンムシーレ as a new-generation Blue Note voice. His trumpet — capable of whisper and explosion in the same phrase — carried an aesthetic fundamentally different from the power of Miles DavisMiles DavisMiles Davisマイルス・デイヴィス or Freddie.

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2014 · The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint and 1 more

A Rift in Decorum
A Rift in Decorum
Ambrose Akinmusire · 2017
The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint
The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint
Ambrose Akinmusire · 2014

Across A Rift in DecorumA Rift in DecorumA Rift in DecorumAmbrose Akinmusire · 2017 (2014) and The Imagined Savior (2014), Ambrose AkinmusireAmbrose AkinmusireAmbrose Akinmusireアンブローズ・アキンムシーレ maintained a consistent band. Justin BrownJustin BrownJustin Brownジャスティン・ブラウン's drums and Sam HarrisSam HarrisSam Harrisサム・ハリス's piano are not accompaniment but co-authorship — inseparable from Akinmusire's sound.

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2008 · Invisible Cinema

Invisible Cinema
Invisible Cinema
Aaron Parks · 2008
Little Big
Little Big
Aaron Parks · 2018
Flow
Flow
Terence Blanchard · 2005
Spirit Fiction
Spirit Fiction
Joshua Redman · 2012

Aaron Parks plays keys on Flow (2005) — a name in the small print on someone else's record. He had entered university at 14 and joined that band while still a teenager; his own Invisible Cinema came three years later, in 2008. The sideman credit is the earlier one.

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