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Trumpet Master Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Looking Forward

By Russell Perry | Jazz at 100
June 15, 2021
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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 as one of the players that are creating the future of jazz. The forward-looking sounds of Christian Scott ATunde Adjuah in this hour of Jazz at 100 Today!

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Host Intro 0:00
Stefon Harris -David Sanchez -Christian Scott "Congo" from Ninety Miles. (Concords) 3:13
Christian Scott Quintet "Jihad Joey" from ATunde Adjuah. (Concord) 9:37
Host speaks 15:29
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah "Diaspora" from Diaspora (Ropeadope) 18:45
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah "The Emancipation Procrastination" from The Emancipation Procrastination (Ropeadope) 23:32
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah "Songs She Never Heard" from Ancestral Recall (Stretch) 29:52
Host speaks 35:48
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah "X. Adjuah [I Own the Night]" from Axiom (Ropeadope) 38:40
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah "Huntress [for Cara]" from Axiom (Ropeadope) 46:56
Host Outro 55:23

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About Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

Instrument: Trumpet

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