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Chief Adjuah

Chief Adjuah is a trumpeter, instrument designer, composer, and bandleader whose Stretch Music projects connect New Orleans lineage with contemporary production.

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Career Overview

About Chief Adjuah

Concord's biography follows Adjuah's development in New Orleans under the guidance of his uncle Donald Harrison, study at Berklee, and early leader recordings issued as Christian Scott. It documents a compositional approach shaped by both jazz history and contemporary social life.[2]

His artist-controlled catalog later names that open framework Stretch Music and extends it through the Centennial Trilogy, live ensemble work, and instruments of his own design. Current releases appear under Chief Adjuah while the earlier Christian Scott names remain essential identity aliases.[1][3][2]

Ensembles and Career Threads

Bands & Projects

Creator, bandleader, trumpeter, and composer

Stretch Music

Adjuah uses Stretch Music for an ensemble practice that draws from jazz, rock, hip-hop, electronic music, and New Orleans traditions without fixing one genre boundary.[3][2]

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

The Centennial Trilogy

The three-album project uses related ensembles and themes to examine a century of recorded music and social history.[3]

Instrument designer, performer, and composer

Adjuah trumpet and Xodokan instruments

Adjuah's current work includes custom horn and stringed-instrument designs that support a shift from conventional trumpet-led ensembles toward new tunings and timbres.[1][3]

Selected, Not Exhaustive

Recordings to Know

2010 · Concord Jazz

Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Leader, trumpeter, composer, and co-producer

The album places Adjuah's working band in a program influenced by 1960s jazz, rock, and folk while addressing contemporary social questions.[2]

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2015

Stretch Music

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

The recording gives Adjuah's genre-open ensemble concept its name and documents a band built around horns, guitar, rhythm, and electronics.[3]

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2020 · Ropeadope Records

Axiom

Leader, trumpeter, and composer

Recorded live with Adjuah's septet, Axiom captures the Stretch Music ensemble in concert rather than as a studio construction.[3]

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Artist-Authorized Destinations

Start Listening

Official Bandcamp

Hear Adjuah's Stretch Music, Centennial Trilogy, live, and current releases through his artist catalog.

Concord catalog

Explore Adjuah's early Christian Scott leader albums through the label's authorized archive.

Live Calendar

Upcoming Jazz DateBook Shows

No current Jazz DateBook dates are listed for Chief Adjuah. The career guide remains available while the calendar changes.

Evidence-Based Connections

Related Musician Guides

Connections below come from shared current Jazz DateBook bills or normalized documented performance roles—not subjective similarity.

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Sources

Career copy is original synthesis from the artist, label, and project sources below. Current dates come from Jazz DateBook event inventory.

  1. [1] Official current artist and instrument site

    Chief Adjuah

  2. [2] Label biography and early leader catalog

    Concord

  3. [3] Official Stretch Music and release catalog

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