Christian Scott: Performing Songs From The Centennial Trilogy | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA

Hear the radio episode: ————————————————————— by NATE CHINEN Spend enough time in New Orleans and you come to understand it as a place for every kind of convergence. The culture hums in an endless exchange, with history forever close at hand. Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah understands this to his core: he grew up immersed in ritual Mardi Gras Indian traditions, and distinguished himself as a jazz trumpeter by his early teens. He’s now shaping his own artistic reality, creating what he