Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – Ancestral Recall

Posted on April 2, 2019 by aaamc

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 →

Pillar- Jonathan Scales Fourchestra

Posted on September 4, 2018 by aaamc

Title: Pillar

Artist: Jonathan Scales Fourchestra

Label: Ropeadope

Formats: CD, MP3

Release date: September 14, 2018

American steel pan player Jonathan Scales is about to release his next project, Pillar, with his group Fourchestra, which includes Maison Guidry (drums) and E’Lon Jordan-Dunlap (bass). Traditionally, pans are played in steelbands performing Calypso music. However, Scales places the steelpan in a contemporary environment using music genres such as jazz, fusion, hip-hop, Latin jazz, and funk, as vehicles for his creative explorations. Continue reading →