Chief Adjuah at Jo Long Theatre

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah formerly Christian Scott is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments. He is a two time Edison Award winning, six time Grammy Award nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee, who has released thirteen critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits collection. He is widely recognized as the progenitor of the Stretch Music, style, a 21st century approach that asserts genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion that heralded NPR to hail him as Ushering in a new era of Jazz and Jazz Times Magazine to mark him as Jazzs young style God...

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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah formerly Christian Scott is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments. He is a two time Edison Award winning, six time Grammy Award nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee, who has released thirteen critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits collection. He is widely recognized as the progenitor of the Stretch Music, style, a 21st century approach that asserts genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion that heralded NPR to hail him as Ushering in a new era of Jazz and Jazz Times Magazine to mark him as Jazzs young style God. and the architect of a commercially viable fusion. He has collaborated with a number of notable artists, including Prince, Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Flea, Eddie Palmieri, Robert Glasper, rappers Mos Def (Yasin Bey) to name a few.

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