Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott)

Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott), is a five-time Grammy Award nominated musician, composer and producer. He is primarily a trumpet player but has also developed his own unique double-side bow instrument (a fusion of W African instruments like the n’goni and kora with modern electronics). He is the nephew of jazz innovator and legendary sax man, Donald Harrison, Jr. Since 2002, Adjuah has released 12 critically-acclaimed and award-winning studio recordings, 3 live albums and one greatest hits collection. According to NPR, Adjuah “ushers in new era of jazz.” He has been heralded by JazzTimes Magazine as “Jazz’s young style God.” Adjuah is also the progenitor of “Stretch Music,” 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. He has worked with a number of notable artists, including Prince, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Eddie Palmieri, rappers Mos Def (Yasin Bey), Talib Kweli, and Vic Mensa, as well as heralded poet and musician Saul Williams. Chief Adjuah’s live shows are renowned worldwide as unmissable, come and see a modern day musical master in action.