Christian Scott at Lantaren Venster

Jazz's young style God' is just one of trumpet player Christian Scott's nicknames. The New Orleans born musician is not just a great trumpet player and jazzinnovater, but also a great performer. Last year he played a sold-out concert at LantarenVenster.

Scott has been living around the oldest of jazz traditions since hist birth. when he was 12 he started to play the trumpet, and his uncle recognised his talent and brought him along on his tour. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. His prime influences are John Coltrane and Miles Davis, but alos Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Mos Def....

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Jazz's young style God' is just one of trumpet player Christian Scott's nicknames. The New Orleans born musician is not just a great trumpet player and jazzinnovater, but also a great performer. Last year he played a sold-out concert at LantarenVenster.

Scott has been living around the oldest of jazz traditions since hist birth. when he was 12 he started to play the trumpet, and his uncle recognised his talent and brought him along on his tour. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston. His prime influences are John Coltrane and Miles Davis, but alos Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Mos Def.

When he was 19 years of age, he already released his first album, wich was nominated for a Grammy. He released 5 more albums since then. All where well recieved because of his passionate playing, but also for his innovative compositions with played with soul, rock and hip-hop elements.

His album, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, was recorded with legendary soundengineer Rudy van Gelder and won a Edison. In 2012 his newest double-album Christian aTunde Adjuah was released and recieved great reviews.

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