AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE Vinyl & CDs

Review: Presenting composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire's Nonesuch Records debut album, Owl Song. The album, comprised of music by a trio formed of Akinmusire himself with two musicians he's has long admired - guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley - is the first of three records Akinmusire is set to release on Nonesuch over the next year. Each will spotlight a distinct element of his musical world and involve different instrumentation and production approaches. Described by the artist as a response to a modern world in which he has at times "felt assaulted by information", Owl Song is a space of progressive-acoustic-electronic nighttime calm, an open question of nocturnality.