American Strings: Chief Adjuah

PRAx welcomes the multifaceted Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) to American Strings, the perfect program to explore his many contributions to jazz, instrument design, music production and Mardi Gras traditions. ​

The grandson of a Louisiana legend, the late Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., the multi-award-winning Chief Adjuah has been advancing musical frontiers for more than two decades — over which time he has released 13 critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums and one greatest hits collection. He is widely recognized as the progenitor of “Stretch Music,” a 21st-century approach that asserts genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion.

Heralded by NPR as “ushering in a new era of jazz” and by JazzTimes as “Jazz’s young style God,” Chief Adjuah will demonstrate one of his unique instruments — the Adjuah Bow — as well as speak from his deep knowledge about music and music innovation. After the on-stage interview, Chief Adjuah will perform a duo set.