Chief Adjuah

About this event

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formally Christian Scott] is a two-time

Edison Award-Winning, six-time Grammy-Nominated sonic architect,

trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of

innovative technologies and musical instruments (..Adjuah Trumpet,

Siren, Sirenette, and Chief Adjuah Bow), founder and CEO of the

Stretch Music app company and record label, and crowned Chieftain

of the Xodokan Nation of the maroon tribes of New Orleans. He is the

grandson of legendary Big Chief, Donald Harrison Sr., and the nephew

of jazz innovator and legendary saxophonist-composer, Dr. Big Chief

Donald Harrison, Jr. Since 2001 Adjuah has released thirteen critically

acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits

collection. He is known for developing the harmonic convention

known as the “forecasting cell” for his use of an un-voiced tone in his

playing, emphasizing breath over vibration at the mouthpiece known

as the whisper technique, and is widely regarded as the progenitor of

the Stretch Music sound. His innovations have garnering a PBS

American Masters short "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah The New

Chief", JAZZFM's Innovator/Innovation of the Year Award, Jazz

Journalist Association Trumpeter of the year, The Herb Alpert Award

in the Arts, The Paul Ackett Award, Echo: Deutscher Musikpreis,

Induction into the inaugural constituency of the Black Genius Brain

Trust, a host of Downbeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Poll's wins

for Best Composer, Best Trumpet and Best Electric/Jazz-

Rock/Contemporary Group, Five consecutive Grammy nominations