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.