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<\/h1>\n<\/h1>\nConnecting past and present in one genre-stretching collection<\/strong><\/p>\n Christian aTunde Adjuah<\/em> isn\u2019t\u00a0just the title of Christian Scott\u2019s new double album\u2014it represents a new phase in the jazz trumpeter\u2019s life. \u201cI felt my experience is indicative of someone who probably shouldn\u2019t be called Scott all the time,\u201d says the New Orleans native, explaining why he now goes by Christian aTunde Adjuah Scott, completing a tie to his African heritage. \u201cI didn\u2019t destroy the name\u2014the Scott part of my history is valid as well. It was just something I needed to clarify.\u201d<\/p>\n The cover art of the 23-track collection\u2014which depicts Scott attired in the full, flamboyant regalia of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian\u2014also goes a long way toward explaining his desire to connect past and present. His uncle, alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., is a chief proponent of the Indian tradition, and Scott, 29, learned much about the legacy from the older musician. More important, Harrison taught his nephew about maintaining versatility and open-mindedness. \u201cDonald is a perfect hybrid,\u201d says Scott. \u201cYou\u2019d be hard-pressed to find any style of jazz that he hasn\u2019t fully acculturated into his playing. He\u2019s also the most rogue character that I can think of musically. That served as a great example for me when I was younger.\u201d<\/p>\n Fittingly, the album is Scott\u2019s most ambitious and far-reaching work yet. Recorded with guitarist Matthew Stevens, keyboardist Lawrence Fields, bassist Kristopher Keith Funn and drummer Jamire Williams, and produced by Scott and Chris Dunn, the leader\u2019s new compositions draw a direct line from the early New Orleans jazz to today\u2019s cutting edge. Scott calls his approach \u201cstretch music.\u201d \u201cThis is the first fully realized stretch music album where you can hear the many contexts and the vernacular that we throw in,\u201d he explains. \u201cYou can take one song, like \u2018Fatima Aisha Rokero 400,\u2019 and there\u2019s stuff that ties into the Black Indian tradition in New Orleans, and stuff that sounds like Radiohead, and a Sergio Leone spaghetti western. What we\u2019re trying to do is figure out a way to create a genre-blind improvisational form.\u201d<\/p>\n Now that he\u2019s so successfully wed past and present, look for Scott to elaborate further on future projects. \u201cI think it\u2019s time to come home a bit,\u201d he says, \u201cand deal with some of those New Orleans rhythms.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n CHRISTIAN SCOTT Connecting past and present in one genre-stretching collection Christian aTunde Adjuah isn\u2019t\u00a0just the title of Christian Scott\u2019s new double album\u2014it represents a new phase in the jazz trumpeter\u2019s life. \u201cI felt my experience is indicative of someone who probably shouldn\u2019t be called Scott all the time,\u201d says the New Orleans native, explaining why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[4865,4864,4538,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7427,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7424\/revisions\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"