"On the jazz trumpeter's fifth album, Akinmusire and his extremely tight band are after your immediate emotional response. It's music that seeks peace not just despite a world of unrest, but within it"

"He is individual enough to evade facile comparisons to his predecessors. Still, in how he stands as part of this tradition, he is reminiscent of folks like Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, as well as Cecil Taylor or Julius Hemphill. He had inherited much, and work like on the tender spot of every calloused moment if giving a great deal back as well"