Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott)
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First Houston appearance!
The six-time Grammy Award nominee, trumpeter and Grand Griot of New Orleans makes his long-awaited first Houston appearance! Keeping the legacy of his forebears -- Louisiana legend Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. and the NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison Jr. -– alive in the 21st century. With his eye on the future, Chief Adjuah embraces a 21st-century approach, asserting genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is a two-time Edison Award-winning, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Since 2001, Chief Adjuah has released 13 critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums and one greatest hits collection.
“one of the most innovative artists of our time” -- Glide Magazine
“an insightful and progressive musician forwarding the flames of ancestral cultures” --Offbeat Magazine
The six-time Grammy Award nominee, trumpeter and Grand Griot of New Orleans makes his long-awaited first Houston appearance! Keeping the legacy of his forebears -- Louisiana legend Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr. and the NEA Jazz Master Donald Harrison Jr. -– alive in the 21st century. With his eye on the future, Chief Adjuah embraces a 21st-century approach, asserting genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah is a two-time Edison Award-winning, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer. Since 2001, Chief Adjuah has released 13 critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums and one greatest hits collection.
“one of the most innovative artists of our time” -- Glide Magazine
“an insightful and progressive musician forwarding the flames of ancestral cultures” --Offbeat Magazine
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Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas St,Houston, Texas, United States
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