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Instrument: Trumpet
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by Roy Strassman
Chief Adjuah Yoshi's jny:Oakland, CA June 23, 2002 Chief Adjuah 's six-seat magic carpet landed for its two-day sojourn at Yoshi's on Thursday night, and what an enchanting performance it was. At first, only five band members took the stage, and the Chief, aka Christian Scott, commenced the stretch-spasm-music spiritual feast with a solo on a customized gold-plated ngoni-type 12-string instrument of his own design. Its sound ranged over the heavens of kora, kalimba, and ...
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by Roy Strassman
Christian Scott aTunde AdjuahYoshi's Oakland, CA October 7, 2021 The Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah flying saucer landed on Thursday night at Yoshi's in Oakland, and what an eclectic crew emerged! Though they were anything but alien, every musician was a monster--trumpet, flute, piano, bass, and three different drummers forming the percussion section. Adjuah, a New Orleanian, is a prepossessing, highly articulate young man and consummate raconteur. His is steeped in a philosophy of ...
read moreTrumpet Master Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Looking Forward
by Russell Perry
Since he began recording at nineteen, now thirty-eight year old Christian Scott ATunde Adjuah has been developing one of the most distinguishable trumpet sounds in jazz. A nephew of alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, Jr., he is graduate of the storied New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and then Berklee College of Music giving him one of the most distinguished set of credentials in the music. Through incorporating elements of hip hop, rock, ambient, funk, and Afrorock he has been celebrated ...
read moreR+R=NOW: R+R=NOW - Live (Blue Note Club New York/2018)
by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
"When you reflect what's going on in your time and respond to that, you can't not be relevant. So 'R' plus 'R' equals 'NOW.'" Con queste parole Robert Glasper spiegava nel 2017 la nascita del sestetto dei R+R=Now, riprendendo una risposta che Nina Simone dava a quanti la criticavano per le sue prese di posizione politiche e sociali ("an artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times"). Non è in effetti una coincidenza che ...
read moreChristian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom
by Phillip Woolever
As evidenced here, those in attendance for Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah's 2020 engagement at New York's Blue Note from March 11-15 witnessed what turned out to be some of the most powerful performances of this restricted musical year, just before everyday life changed for most people on the planet. The record is dedicated to the victims of Corona-19. This exceptional concert compilation could well be the first of “jazz's" present day, classic live albums released during the pandemic ...
read moreFire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 4
by Ludovico Granvassu
As our series dedicated to the amazing music that has come out of the struggle for the advancement of African-Americans, we span from tunes inspired by the march on Selma, or dedicated to the many victims of racially motivated brutality. Listen to deep set featuring old masters like Grant Green, Blue Mitchell, current giants like Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jason Moran and Wynton Marsalis and stars of the future like Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Logan Richardson, Kris Bowers and Keyon Harrold. ...
read moreA to JazZ Festival 2019
by Ian Patterson
A to JazZ Festival 2019 South Park II Sofia, Bulgaria July 5-7, 2019 Jazz on a summer's day. There's nothing quite like it. To see Sofia's South Park II packed with somewhere between fifteen and twenty thousand people for three days of jazz, where a veritable sea of good vibes held sway, was an uplifting sight. That people came in such numbers was chiefly due to the fact that A to JazZ ...
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