Jazz Articles about Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona: Christian Scott, Bob Belden y Albert Pla

by Joan Fargas
December 19, 2012

Christian Scott Quintet44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaLuz de Gas25 de noviembre del 2012En el mismo momento en que cerraban las urnas y empezaba el recuento de las elecciones catalanas, Christian Scott subió al escenario de Luz de Gas acompañado por un equipo de músicos jovencísimos que, aunque no coincidían con la formación del CD que se presentaba ni del programa, prometían y dieron “guerra" desde el primer suspiro. Iniciaron el ...

Christian Scott: Shining a Light

by Chris May
June 19, 2012

Trumpeter/bandleader Christian Scott's aTunde Adjuah (Concord, 2012), like its immediate predecessor, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord, 2010), delivers on two fronts. Musically, it retains what is precious in the jazz tradition, while drawing in ideas from hip hop, rock, funk, ambient and Afrorock. Extra-musically, it reaffirms jazz as protest music.Born and brought up in New Orleans, Scott has lived in New York City since graduating from Boston's Berklee College of Music in 2003. In New Orleans, he was ...

Christian Scott: aTunde Adjuah

by Chris May
June 11, 2012

In 1959, when Whitney Balliett, the New Yorker's jazz critic, published a collection of his columns, he titled the book The Sound of Surprise. The promise of the unexpected, wrote Balliett, was jazz's most precious quality. In a year which went on to include the release of trumpeter Miles Davis' Kind of Blue (Columbia), saxophonist John Coltrane's Giant Steps (Atlantic), pianist Dave Brubeck's Time Out (Columbia) and saxophonist Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic), you could say ...

Christian Scott Quintet, Live at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA

by Robert Bush
June 26, 2010

Christian Scott Quintet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA April 13, 2010

I believe it was the English writer/contrarian George Bernard Shaw who first coined the phrase: “Youth is wasted on the young." Anybody buying into that cliché was soon set straight--provided they were fortunate enough to be among the standing-room-only-crowd who witnessed this performance. Twenty seven year old trumpeter Christian Scott last appeared in San Diego as a guest of ...

Christian Scott: Breaking Boundaries, Crossing Lines

by Frederick Bernas
March 9, 2010

Christian Scott is lounging on a black leather couch, easy and relaxed before taking to the stage at a Moscow jazz club. The cold, gloomy Russian capital hosted the New Orleans trumpeter's quintet for a trio of gigs in February 2009--including a show at the US ambassador's cushy residence, in front of an elite audience of officials and dignitaries.

Diplomatic functions do not represent a major part of the group's touring schedule. Maybe Scott was a slightly surprising choice for ...

Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

by Chris May
January 25, 2010

Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, all welded together by the New Orleans-born player's alternately caressing and searing horn, and by his most tightly focused band to date.

Christian Scott: Live at Newport

by Tod Smith
November 18, 2008

Christian Scott Live at Newport Concord Music Group 2008

Creativity is most often found outside the boundaries of established tradition. It's while looking outside of those traditional boundaries that an artist frequently finds his or her own voice. In two previous releases, Rewind That (Concord, 2006) and Anthem (Concord, 2007), trumpeter Christian Scott has attempted to do just that. While paying homage to the past, he certainly had his eyes fixed on discovering his ...