My Name Is Oscar

Ambrose Akinmusire · 2011

Context

Composition by Ambrose Akinmusire lasting 3 min 49, ninth track of the album When the Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note, April 2011). Recorded in September 2010 at Brooklyn Studios, the record is the successor to Prelude... to Cora (2008).

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Renaissances (Los Angeles, London). Among the origins and influences of Renaissances: Acid jazz, jazz-rap, nu jazz, Spiritual jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk, British jazz, Afrobeat, makossa, highlife-jazz, ECM and European jazz, Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide).

By the same artist

• Henya (2011)
• Confessions to My Unborn Daughter (2011)
• Marie Christie (2014)
• Our Basement (Ed) (2014)
• Rollcall for Those Absent (2014)
• A Blooming Bloodfruit in a Hoodie (2018)

Sources

• EN: When the Heart Emerges Glistening

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