Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formerly Christian Scott] is a two-time Edison Award-winning, six-time GRAMMY-nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He creates as a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of innovative technologies, and musical instruments. Chief is widely recognized as the progenitor of “Stretch Music,” a jazz-rooted, genre-blind musical form that attempts to “stretch” jazz’s rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic conventions to encompass multiple musical forms, languages, and cultures, prompting NPR to consider him as “ushering in a new era of jazz.” Bringing his five-piece band to the Bailey Hall stage, “jazz’s young style God” (JazzTimes) will deliver a performance to remember.
photo credit: Maya Iman
This engagement of Chief Adjuah is made possible in part through the Jazz Touring Network program of Mid Atlantic Arts with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
“Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah looks back from jazz's future.” – Fader