Chief Adjuah
Chief Adjuah joins us with his band to perform his innovative style of “stretch music” combining influences of New Orleans jazz, West African, and African diasporic styles.
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Trained as a trumpet player in New Orleans by his uncle, jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr., Chief Xiah aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) has created a new style of jazz he calls “stretch music.” The title of his 2015 album, stretch music is, in the artist's words, “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.” A designer of apps and instruments and prolific collaborator with the likes of Prince, McCoy Tyner, and Thom Yorke, Chief Adjuah has won two Edison Awards and been nominated for six Grammys for his work. Don’t miss these performances with the player JazzTimes called “jazz’s young style God.” (each performance approx. 60 mins.)
