The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint

by Ambrose Akinmusire

The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2014-01-01
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:18:19
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The highly acclaimed trumpeter delivers an incredibly ambitious, conceptually rich sophomore album on Blue Note Records. 'The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint' masterfully balances intricate post-bop instrumental compositions with sweeping, deeply emotional chamber-jazz arrangements and several prominent guest vocal performances. The remarkably passionate, socially conscious, and beautifully melancholic record secured his status at the forefront of modern jazz.

Genres

Descriptors: Instrumental, Acoustic, Conscious, Improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Marie Christie (3:15)
  2. As We Fight (Willie Penrose) (6:23)
  3. Our Basement (Ed) (6:26)
  4. Vartha (7:46)
  5. Memo (G. Learson) (5:50)
  6. The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits (4:12)
  7. Asiam (Joan) (6:01)
  8. Bubbles (John William Sublett) (3:52)
  9. Ceaseless Inexhaustible Child (Cyntoia Brown) (6:11)
  10. Rollcall for Those Absent (3:38)
  11. J.E. Nilmah (Ecclesiastes 6:10) (5:11)
  12. Inflatedbyspinning (3:01)
  13. Richard (Conduit) (16:28)

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