Blue Note is to release the latest album by Ambrose Akinmusire in March. The 2007 Thelonious Monk prize-winning trumpeter’s quintet of saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown is joined on The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier To Paint by guitarist Charles Altura, the OSSO String Quartet, vocalists Becca Stevens, Theo Bleckmann, and Cold Specks. Akinmusire debuted for the label, which turns 75 in 2014, with the album When The Heart Emerges Glistening that was greeted with significant acclaim in 2011.