Artist: Christian Scott
Title Of Album: Christian aTunde Adjuah
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Concord Jazz
Genre: Jazz / Fusion
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 01:59:15
Total Size: 764 MB
WebSite: ChristianScott.net

Tracklist:

CD: 1

01. Fatima Aisha Rokero 400 [05:41]
02. New New Orleans (King Adjuah Stomp) [05:01]
03. Kuro Shinobi (Interlude) [02:25]
04. Who They Wish I Was [05:42]
05. Pyrrhic Victory of aTunde Adjuah [05:17]
06. Spy Boy / Flag Boy [04:45]
07. vs. the Kleptocratic Union (Ms. McDowell's Crime) [06:00]
08. Kiel [06:14]
09. Of Fire (Les Filles de la Nouvelle Orleans) [04:15]
10. Dred Scott [04:29]
11. Danziger [10:38]

CD: 2

01. The Berlin Patient (CCR5) [03:50]
02. Jihad Joe [05:56]
03. Van Gogh (Interlude) [01:35]
04. Liar Liar [05:41]
05. I Do [04:03]
06. Alkebu Lan [05:33]
07. Bartlett [07:01]
08. When Marissa Stands Her Ground [06:24]
09. Cumulonimbus (Interlude) [02:26]
10. Away (Anuradha & the Mai
ti Nepal) [07:03]
11. The Red Rooster [03:37]
12. Cara [05:30]

Review
Edison Award winning [bad [bad word] producer-bandleader Christian Scott releases [bad word] new album, Christian aTunde Adjuah. The follow-up to his critically-acclaimed Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is an inspired and provocative two-disc, 23-track collection. With the artist s [bad word] at the heart of most of the tunes, the album features reflective ballads, light and dreamy soundscapes, guitar-edged and rock-inflected cookers, [bad word] ecstasies as well as clarion calls and anguished wails.

An intrepid explorer, Scott ups the ante on his new double album Christian aTunde Adjuah, continuing to delve into uncharted jazz territory. Scott s band consists of guitarist Matthew Stevens, [bad word] Jamire Williams, bassist Kris Funn and pianist Lawrence Fields (whose piano sound is often spiced for effect by using paper on the [bad word] s strings). Scott also [bad word] guests tenor saxophonist Kenneth Whalum III, alto saxophonist Louis Fouche IIII, and trombonist Corey King.

Christian aTunde Adjuah is arguably the most personal project to date for the young artist, reflected in the album title, Christian aTunde Adjuah-- the artist s new name, and the album cover -- a photo of the Scott in the traditional attire of his culture the Black Indians of New Orleans.

Scott says, 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 [bad word] of my name. I am Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah. The addition of the names aTunde and [bad word] 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 [bad word] it to reflect another part of my ancestry and lineage-- the part before Scott.

tour de force masterwork, Christian aTunde Adjuah opens a wide window on Scott s present as well as his past (especially in reaction to the jazz [bad word] about his breaking free from the jazz standard) and his auspicious creative future. In his liners, Scott writes that the listener will hear on the album a stretching of jazz, not a replacement. That is what I hope younger people will be able to take away from it as well the idea that innovation should never be regarded as a problem in artistic practice, that one should always be aware of what [bad word] before, and finally, that criticisms shouldn t evoke paralysis, [but] should inspire action.