Christian Scott

6music

Born 31 March 1983.

Christian Scott

Biography

Christian Scott, also known as Christian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is the 2010 & 2012 Edison Award winner for Best International Jazz Artist and a Grammy Award-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and actor. He has been heralded by JazzTimes magazine as "the Architect of a new commercially viable fusion" and "Jazz's young style God".

The nephew of jazz alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, since 2006 Scott has released four studio albums, and one live recording.

The trumpeter is noted for his use of an unvoiced tone, which he calls his "whisper technique."

Wikipedia This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia. Find out more about our use of this data.

Links & Information

BBC Reviews

  1. Anthem 2008

    Review of Anthem

    Reviewed by Paul Sullivan

    Anthem is the work of a hard-working young man with his ears wide open and his head...

Share this page

More BBC Music highlights

  1. Later... with Jools Holland

In order to listen to track previews you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions.

Latest Tracks Played on the BBC

  1. New New Orleans (King Adjuah Stomp)

    BBC 6 Music | The Huey Show It's the New Style

     
  2. The Red Rooster

    BBC 6 Music | The Huey Show Wah Wah 45s

     
  3. Van Gogh

    BBC 6 Music | Gilles Peterson Taylor McFerrin Words and Music

     
  4. Dred Scott

    BBC 6 Music | The Huey Show 23/09/2012

     
  5. The Eraser

    BBC 6 Music | The Tom Robinson Show 26/02/2010

     

Similar Artists

  1. Nicholas Payton

    Nicholas Payton

  2. Robert Glasper

    Robert Glasper

  3. Terence Blanchard

    Terence Blanchard

  4. Roy Hargrove

    Roy Hargrove

  5. We use data provided by The Echo Nest to recommend similar artists. Find out more about this information.

BBC © 2013 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read more.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.