Christian Scott, also known as Christian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer and producer. Read full biography of Christian Scott →
Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person... →
Depending on what you allow, you can still get the blues, man. I'm still trying to figure out where the blues really lies, where the street is.
I don't just play the trumpet because it's something that resonates with me: I play the trumpet because I realize it's a means to help... →
New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the... →
The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of... →
I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.
I think a lot of musicians and artists are really one that really only have one trick.
I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.
If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
At Mardi Gras, the different tribes will basically play war games, and so my brother is what you call a Flag Boy, which is more of less like a... →
Christian Scott, also known as Christian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana ) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer and producer.