You have to spend some time in New Orleans to understand how much this city is a space of convergence, of shocks, of culture and counter-culture, of backfiring and colorful joys, but also of cold and gray silences. Better than anyone, Christian Scott – who now prefers to call himself Chief aTunde Adjuah – manages to express this complexity in an exciting and constantly changing artistic work. After bringing jazz into a new era with his trumpet, he invented a “stretched” style, which he called stretch…
