Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Ruler Rebel

Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2017
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:44
Size: 81,9 MB
Art: Front

(5:45)  1. Ruler Rebel
(2:33)  2. New Orleanian Love Song
(4:56)  3. New Orleanian Love Song II (X. aTunde Adjuah Remix)
(4:15)  4. Phases (feat. Sarah Elizabeth Charles)
(3:42)  5. Rise Again (Allmos Remix)
(5:38)  6. Encryption (feat. Elena Pinderhughes)
(5:36)  7. The Coronation of X. aTunde Adjuah (feat. Elena Pinderhughes)
(3:16)  8. The Reckoning

Ruler Rebel is the first of a trilogy to be released this year by the imaginative and increasingly popular 33-year-old New Orleans trumpeter Christian Scott as a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first jazz record in 1917, and a typical Scott genre mash with a undisguised socio-political subtext in African American history. Scott’s reverence for Miles Davis is soon plain in his softly exhaled, muted sounds against the silky orchestral synth textures on the title track opener. Two New Orleanian Love Songs embrace open-trumpet sweeps over keys loops and hip-hop grooves. 

The soul-jazz sound of vocalist Sarah Elizabeth Charles (for whom Scott has previously produced) mingles with ghostly brass tones on Phases, and the sensational young jazz flautist Elena Pinderhughes commandingly swoops through the handclap-driven Encryption and the church-bell synth mimicry and terse percussion of The Coronation of X aTunde Adjuah. 

It’s imaginative, studio-produced jazz in the tradition of Marcus Miller’s 1980s work with Miles Davis, but in its references it feels as contemporary as today’s date. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/20/christian-scott-ruler-rebel-review-edgy-reinventions-of-the-jazz-tradition

Personnel: Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Trumpet, Siren, Sirenette, Reverse Flugelhorn, SPD-SX, Sampling, Sonic Architecture; Elena Pinderhughes - Flute; Lawrence Fields - Piano, Fender Rhodes; Luques Curtis - Bass; Kris Funn - Bass; Joshua Crumbly - Bass; Cliff Hines - Guitar; Corey Fonville - Drums, SPD-SX; Joe Dyson Jr. - Pan African Drums, SPD-SX; Weedie Braimah - Djembe, Bata, Congas ; Chief Shaka Shaka - Dununba, Sangban, Kenikeni

Ruler Rebel

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