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Blue Note Signs Ambrose Akinmusire, Award-winning Trumpeter

EMI’s Blue Note Records has signed jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Ambrose Akinmusire. The 28 year-old winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition will head into the studio this Fall to record his major label debut with labelmate Jason Moran as co-producer. “Mr. Akinmusire is among the latest to put together a quintet that [...]