Chief Adjuah
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) is a two-time Edison Award-winning, six-time Grammy Award-nominated, Doris Duke Award in the Arts awardee. He is a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments (including The Stretch Music app, Adjuah Trumpet, Siren, Sirenette, Chief Adjuah’s Bow and Chief Adjuah’s N’Goni). He is also the founder and CEO of the Stretch Music App and Recording Company. Adjuah is Chieftain and Oba of the Xodokan Nation as well as the current Grand Griot of New Orleans. He is the grandson of Louisiana luminary and legend, the late Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., Guardians Institute founder and Grand Griot, Herreast Harrison. And is the nephew of Jazz innovator and NEA Jazz Master saxophonist-composer, Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. Adjuah (and his twin brother Kiel) joined his grandfather’s Guardians of the Flame banner in 1989 at the age of five.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formally Christian Scott] is a two-time
Edison Award-Winning, six-time Grammy-Nominated sonic architect,
trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, designer of
innovative technologies and musical instruments (..Adjuah Trumpet,
Siren, Sirenette, and Chief Adjuah Bow), founder and CEO of the
Stretch Music app company and record label, and crowned Chieftain
of the Xodokan Nation of the maroon tribes of New Orleans. He is the
grandson of legendary Big Chief, Donald Harrison Sr., and the nephew
of jazz innovator and legendary saxophonist-composer, Dr. Big Chief
Donald Harrison, Jr. Since 2001 Adjuah has released thirteen critically
acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits
collection. He is known for developing the harmonic convention
known as the “forecasting cell” for his use of an un-voiced tone in his
playing, emphasizing breath over vibration at the mouthpiece known
as the whisper technique, and is widely regarded as the progenitor of
the Stretch Music sound. His innovations have garnering a PBS
American Masters short "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah The New
Chief", JAZZFM's Innovator/Innovation of the Year Award, Jazz
Journalist Association Trumpeter of the year, The Herb Alpert Award
in the Arts, The Paul Ackett Award, Echo: Deutscher Musikpreis,
Induction into the inaugural constituency of the Black Genius Brain
Trust, a host of Downbeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Poll's wins
for Best Composer, Best Trumpet and Best Electric/Jazz-
Rock/Contemporary Group, Five consecutive Grammy nominations