Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) | The Cookers Septet

Name: Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) | The Cookers Septet
Start: 2024-06-21T15:30:00-07:00
Location: 14210 Bacchus Landing Way, Healdsburg, CA 95448

Schedule

Fri Jun 21 2024 at 03:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

14210 Bacchus Landing Way, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | Healdsburg, CA

Hailing from a storied New Orleans musical dynasty, trumpeter Chief Adjuah has fully embraced his world-shaking heritage. Formerly known as Christian Scott, he’s a masterly improviser, stylistically venturesome composer, and far-seeing conceptualist whose improvisation-laced sound is deeply inspired by West African forms. The grandson of legendary Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., a leader of the Mardi Gras Indians whose knowledge of Black New Orleans culture was unrivaled, and nephew of alto saxophone jazz innovator and NEA Jazz Master Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr., Chief Adjuah is steeped in jazz history and tradition. Over the past decade, he’s explored astonishingly beautiful new realms of African-inspired sound, what he calls “Stretch Music,” while also designing and playing several ground-breaking new harp-like instruments, the Adjuah's Bow and Adjuah's N'Goni. In the New Orleans tradition, he approaches jazz as inextricably bound to a capacious continuum of social and ritual music, a sound and sensibility that has attracted artists such as Prince, Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Eddie Palmieri, and Mos Def (who’ve all featured him on projects). As much as any artist in jazz, he represents the music’s power to uplift people, transmitting essential values via rhythmic alchemy and melodic invention.
Highlighting the way the jazz world is often undergirded by familial connections, the double bill also features The Cookers, a band that was born 20 years ago at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. An all-star group that has performed hundreds of gigs around the world and recorded six acclaimed albums, the band is built upon a protean rhythm section with bass maestro Cecil McBee, beloved piano master George Cables, and drummer Billy Hart, a longtime member of the Healdsburg Festival family and NEA Jazz Master. The horns are equally formidable, with tenor sax titan Craig Handy and trumpet great Eddie Henderson, who gave up the practice of medicine to focus on music full-time (he’s the subject of a new documentary Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius). As the band’s senior core, the five players have been in jazz’s vanguard since the 1960s and over the years their paths have crossed on dozens of era-defining recordings and bands. New Orleans alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. an NEA Jazz Master and Chief Adjuah’s uncle, is a revered jazz artist and educator. The band’s youngest member, 59-year-old trumpeter David Weiss, is also the head chief who first assembled the group for a concert at the 2007 Healdsburg Jazz Festival. A respected arranger who leads several other ensembles, he wanted to create a showcase for veteran masters with significant portfolios of compositions. With every ingredient of the highest quality, The Cookers serve up an aural feast unrivaled by any seven-piece band in the business. The Cookers featuring Craig Handy (Tenor Sax), Eddie Henderson (Trumpet), David Weiss (Trumpet), Donald Harrison (Alto Sax), George Cables (Piano), Cecil McBee (Bass), Billy Hart (Drums).
This event will take place at Bacchus Landing. Located at the crossroads of three of Sonoma County’s premier wine regions, Bacchus Landing in Healdsburg represents a curated collection of boutique wineries, showcasing a wide range of grape varietals and winemaking styles. These wineries include Aldina Vineyards, Convene by Dan Kosta, Dot Wine, Montagne Russe, The Setting Wines, Smith Story Wine Cellars, and Westside Sparkling. Taste the wines from the collective of world-class wineries, each with its own beautiful and spacious tasting room, and enjoy wood-fired pizza from team Bacchus. Stroll the stunning Mediterranean grounds.
This concert will take place outdoors in Bacchus Landing’s beautiful courtyard with theater-style seating. Please dress for changing weather conditions.
** SEATING CHART NOTE: $25 Student pricing Row T | Luxury Lounges (for six) | Bistro Pairs are sold as a single unit. Please note if you need to cancel/change the Luxury Lounge or Bistro Pair from your cart, you must return to the seating chart.