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, and designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments (the Adjuah Trumpet, Siren, Sirenette, and Chief Adjuah’s Bow acoustic and electric).
He is the founder and CEO of the Stretch Music app company and record label. And Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation of the maroon and black Indian tribes of New Orleans. He is the grandson of legendary Big Chief, Donald Harrison Sr. and Grand Griot of New Orleans and Guardians Institute founder Herreast Harrison, the nephew of NEA jazz innovator and legendary saxophonist-composer, Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. and Maroon Queen of the Guardians of the Flame, activist educator, and founder of the Black Indian Hall of Fame, Cherice Harrison Nelson. He is the identical twin brother of NAACP Image Award winning writer- director, producer and visual artist Kiel Adrian Scott. Since 2001, Adjuah has released thirteen critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits collection. Receiving six Grammy nominations ranging from Best Contemporary Instrumental Recording to Best Contemporary Jazz Recording and Best Jazz Solo. He is commonly regarded as the progenitor of the Stretch Music. With recent innovations garnering a PBS American Masters special, JAZZ FM’s Innovator/Innovation of the Year Award, a Doris Duke Award in the Arts, 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 wins for Best Composer, Best Trumpet and Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group, and The Changing Worlds Peace Maker Award. Jazztimes Magazine hails him as “Jazz’s young style God” and
“The architect of a commercially viable fusion” with NPR citing the sound and Adjuah as “Ushering in a new era in Jazz”