Christian Scott - New Album & UK Tour
Christian Scott’s new album will be released on June 25th and he will support George Benson on a six-date UK tour from June 28th – July 4th.
On June 25th 2012, award-winning trumpeter, composer, producer and bandleader Christian Scott releases his compelling new album, Christian aTunde Adjuah. One of the most gifted artists of his generation, Grammy-nominated Scott has collaborated with a host of revered musicians from the worlds of jazz, rock, hip-hop and R&B, including Thom Yorke, Marcus Miller, Prince, Jill Scott and Mos Def, and this follow-up to 2010’s critically acclaimed Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is an inspired and provocative two-disc, 23-track collection featuring reflective ballads, light and dreamy soundscapes and rock-inflected cookers.
An intrepid explorer, Scott continues to delve into uncharted jazz territory and Christian aTunde Adjuah is arguably his most personal project to date. “The album cover is a self-portrait, a two-tiered depiction of me in the ceremonial regalia of the Afro-Native American Culture of New Orleans – colloquially known as Black Indians or Mardi Gras Indians. The photo represents the same general idea that the record does. It’s about the willingness to forge new paths and to seek new terrain while excavating one’s own past as a means of gaining a better contextual understanding of that path” Scott explains. “The cover. The album. Everything represents the completion of my name. I am Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The addition of the names aTunde and Adjuah comes from two cities in the West African nation of Benin, which is present day Ghana. It’s just a way for me to tell the world that I accept all of my past and am willing to explore it. So in a sense, I haven’t changed my name. I’ve completed it to reflect another part of my ancestry and lineage – the part before Scott.”
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