About Christian Scott
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah , , is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and is a two-time Edison Award winner. He has been named the Jazz FM Innovator of the Year and the Jazz Journalists Association Trumpeter of the Year. He has also received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Changing Worlds Peace Maker Award, and the Doris Duke Performing Arts Award. Adjuah is the nephew of jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. Adjuah is the Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation of Maroons and Grand Griot of New Orleans, an honor bestowed by the Ashé Cultural Center as part of annual rites commemorating the Maafa.
Adjuah was born on March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Cara Harrison and Clinton Scott III. He has an identical twin brother, writer-director Kiel Adrian Scott. He began studying jazz with his uncle, jazz alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr, when he was 12. He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts , for high school and studied jazz under the guidance of program directors Clyde Kerr, Jr. and Kent Jordan. Adjuah appeared on Harrison Jr.’s albums Paradise Found and Kind of New after joining his uncle's quintet at age 16. He graduated from NOCCA in 2001.
Adjuah received a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he majored in professional music with a concentration in film scoring and graduated in 2004. As a Berklee student, he started Impromp2 Records and released his first recording, Christian Scott . As a student, he was a member of the Berklee Monterey Quartet, recorded as part of the Pat Metheny and Gary Burton-led Art:21 student cooperative quintet, and studied under the direction of Charlie Lewis, Dave Santoro, and Gary Burton.
Adjuah was signed to Concord Music in 2005. That year, he was featured on Nnenna Freelon's Grammy nominated Blueprint of a Lady. His Concord Records debut album Rewind That received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Jazz Album.
In 2007, he released Anthem and, in 2008, Live at Newport, a CD/DVD set. Of this album, NPR raved " Ushers In New Era of Jazz.”
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