Christian aTunde Adjuah

Christian aTunde Adjuah
Studio album by Christian Scott
Released	25 June 2012 (UK), 31 July 2012 (US)
Recorded	Recorded July 20–22, 25–27, 2011
Studio	Sear Sound, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	119:06
Label	Concord Music Group
Producer	Chris Dunn and Christian aTunde Adjuah
Christian Scott chronology
Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (2010)Yesterday You Said Tomorrow2010 Christian aTunde Adjuah (2012)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
All About Jazz	[4]

Christian aTunde Adjuah is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott released on 31 July 2012 by Concord Records.^[5]

Reception

John Fordham of The Guardian wrote "The double album Christian aTunde Adjuah broadens the themes further: to his family's African ancestry, contemporary inequality and racism, globalisation and war. It isn't a lecture, but a courageous and ambitious experiment. The proclamatory purity of Scott's trumpet sound could carry much of the set's message on its own, but guitarist Matthew Stevens' raw chords and churning vamps make effective contrasts with the leader's silvery double-time passages".^[6] Chris Ray of All About Jazz noted "Extra-musically, too, aTunde Adjuah is a manifesto for change. Scroll down the track listing: the titles reference issues such as the rape of 400 African women in the Sudanese town of Rokero by Janjaweed militiamen ("Fatima Aisha Rokero 400"), the killing of an innocent black teenager in Florida earlier this year ("Trayvon"), the demonization of the homeless in the US ("Vs. The Kleptocratic Union: Mrs McDowell's Crime"), the trafficking of women for the sex trade ("Away: Anuradha And The Maiti Nepal"), conflict in the Middle East ("Jihad Joe"), the legacy of slavery in the US ("Dred Scott"), police killings of innocent people in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina ("Danziger"), and HIV/AIDS ("The Berlin Patient: CCR5")... Scott's music is instrumental rather than vocal, so he addresses these issues not with words, but with attitude and vibe; track titles and liner notes are the only words you get. His message is no less coherent for that, and, while it may not have the narrative literalism of "conscious" rap music, it has the same relevance, accessibility and immediacy".^[7]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Christian Scott unless otherwise indicated.

Disc 1

1. Fatima Aisha Rokero 400 (5:41)
2. New New Orleans (King Adjuah Stomp) (5:01)
3. Kruo Shinobi (Interlude) (2:25), written by Lawrence Fields and Jamire Williams
4. Who They Wish I Was (5:42), written with Kristopher Keith Funn
5. Pyrrhic Victory of aTunde Adjuah (5:17)
6. Spy Boy / Flag Boy (4:45)
7. Vs. The Kleptocratic Union (Ms. McDowell's Crime) (6:00)
8. Kiel (6:14)
9. Of Fire (Les Filles de la Nouvelle Orleans) (4:15)

10.

Dred Scott (4:29)

11.

Danziger (10:38)

Disc 2

1. The Berlin Patient (CCR5) (3:50)
2. Jihad Joe (5:56)
3. Van Gogh (Interlude) (1:35), written with Lawrence Fields
4. Liar Liar (5:41)
5. I Do (4:03)
6. Alkebu Lan (5:33)
7. Bartlett (7:01), written by Matthew Stevens
8. When Marissa Stands Her Ground (6:24)
9. Cumulonimbus (Interlude) (2:26), written by Lawrence Fields
10. Away (Anuradha & The Maiti Nepal) (7:03)
11. The Red Rooster (3:37), written by Kristopher Keith Funn
12. Cara (5:30)

Personnel

• Christian Scott – trumpet, siren, sirenette, reverse flugal
• Matthew Stevens – guitars
• Lawrence Fields – piano, Fender Rhodes, harpsichord
• Kristopher Keith Funn – bass
• Jamire Williams – drums
• Kenneth Whalum III – tenor saxophone on "I Do"
• Corey King – trombone on "Of Fire (Les Filles de la Nouvelle Orleans", "Liar Liar", "When Marissa Stands Her Ground", and "Away"
• Louis Fouche – alto saxophone on "Of Fire (Les Filles de la Nouvelle Orleans" and "When Marissa Stands Her Ground"

References