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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Tigran Hamasyan and Ambrose Akinmusire

November 26, 2019
Lothringerstraße 20, 1030 Wien, Austria

In an age when jazz is amplified in clubs the size of a breakfast nook, a series called “Jazz Unplugged” promises blessed relief. Dispensing it here are Hamasyan, an Armenian-born pianist who romps blithely from motoric vamps to perfumed modal arabesques, and Akinmusire, whose acrid, utterly original trumpet can evoke, in a single phrase, fragile Milesian lyricism and an antically flatulent balloon. —E.E.