Chief Adjuah

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott), is a two-time Edison Award winning and five-time Grammy Award nominated musician, composer and producer. He is the nephew of jazz innovator and legendary sax man, Donald Harrison, Jr. His musical tutelage began under the direction of his uncle at the age of thirteen. After graduating from the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) in 2001, Adjuah received a full tuition scholarship to Berklee College of Music where he earned a degree in Professional Music and Film Scoring.

Since 2002, Adjuah has released 12 critically-acclaimed and award-winning studio recordings, 3 live albums and one greatest hits collection. According to NPR, Adjuah “ushers in new era of jazz."

He has been heralded by JazzTimes Magazine as "Jazz's young style God." Adjuah is also the progenitor of “Stretch Music,” a jazz rooted, genre blind musical form that attempts to “stretch” jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass multiple musical forms, languages and cultures.

Since 2006, he has worked with a number of notable artists, including Prince, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Eddie Palmieri, rappers Mos Def (Yasin Bey), Talib Kweli, and Vic Mensa, as well as heralded poet and musician Saul Williams.

Catch Chief Adjuah as featured guest with his uncle Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr's Congo Square Nation Afro-New Orleans Group on Friday, August 15th