Beauty Is Enough

Playing solo has just been something that's been in the back of my head," he says. The appeal, he adds, is the beauty that lives in sitting with oneself - and that being enough." "I think when you have a lot of technique and you can play almost everything that's in your head, it's hard to commit to beauty. It's hard to not do the flashy stuff," says Akinmusire. "So I wanted to do a solo project that is just about sitting in the center of the beauty. The center of self, which is, for me, beauty.