Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983), (formerly Christian Scott), is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Adjuah live in 2016 at Leverkusener Jazztage
Background information
Also known asChief Adjuah, aTunde Adjuah, X. Adjuah, Xian Adjuah
Born (1983-03-31) March 31, 1983
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • composer
Instrument(s)
  • Adjuah trumpet (reverse flugelhorn)
  • flugelhorn
  • siren
  • sirenette
  • cornet
  • soprano trombone
Years active1996–present
Labels
  • Universal
  • Concord
  • Ropeadope
  • Stretch
  • Impromp2
Websitechiefadjuah.com

He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards and is a two-time Edison Award winner. He has been named the Jazz FM Innovator of the Year and the Jazz Journalists Association Trumpeter of the Year. He has also received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Changing Worlds Peace Maker Award, and the Doris Duke Performing Arts Award. Adjuah is the nephew of jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. Adjuah is the Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation of Maroons and Grand Griot of New Orleans, an honor bestowed by the Ashé Cultural Center as part of annual rites commemorating the Maafa.

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