Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah is, no doubt, a brilliant trumpeter and composer with a serious statement to make. Ruler Rebel represents the first of a series of albums in his “Centennial Trilogy,” which commemorates the 100th anniversary of the initial commercial jazz recording. If this heavily orchestrated, electronically filled album stands as where Adjuah starts this project, it’s a wonder where he will take the music from here.

For the most part, Adjuah’s trumpet beckons from atop a mix of “sonic architecture” (his words): keyboards and drums of all natures, generations and continents. African drums stand alongside and/or are interchanged with a drum machine and a trap set. Obviously, there’s a lot going on here, yet it’s all set in a rather ethereal atmosphere. There’s a darkness in Adjuah’s yearning and rather mournful trumpet wails.

The talented Elena Pinderhughes’ flute brightens “Encryption” and “The Coronation of X. aTunde Adjuah” with its lighter essence and higher tonal qualities. The flautist and trumpeter, however, rarely truly engage each other.

On the final track, “The Reckoning,” Adjuah seems to discover further power in anticipation of a time of accounting for the lack of changes in social justice and the continued inhumanity found in the world during the last century. It even begins with a standard drum roll, plus Adjuah blows his trumpet with a more triumphant flavor. Strength proves to be an appropriate way to culminate the ambitious Ruler Rebel.