Title: Ancestral Recall
Artist: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
Label: Ropeadope
Formats: CD, Digital
Release date: March 22, 2019

New Orleans based jazz trumpeter and composer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah has just released his much anticipated project, Ancestral Recall. The album is meant to be a continuation of his concept “stretch music.” Introduced with his 2015 album of the same name, “stretch music” is Adjuah’s attempt to “stretch—not replace—jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many musical forms/languages/cultures as we can.”  Continue reading →