On Friday, August 28, Grammy-winning jazz musician, bandleader and composer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah will release a live album AXIOM, an album exemplifying his provocative take on jazz and “expansive music.”

The new album features a March 2020 performance at the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City — which turned out to be Adjuah’s and his band’s final live performance before the pandemic effectively shut down live music — and will be released via Ropeadope/Stretch Music.

In a press release, Adjuah said of the new record, “Axioms are essentially postulates from which an abstractly defined structure is based, a statement or proposition which is regarded as self-evidently true…Axioms serve as starting points for further reasoning and arguments. It’s difficult to find a more appropriate correlative to jazz and expansive music.”

Featuring Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr., Grammy-nominated saxophonist Alex Han, djembefola (djembe master) Weedie Braimah, pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Kris Funn, and drummer Corey Fonville, Adjuah says AXIOM explores the differentiation between hearing and listening. “The intention to understand is present in listening. When you listen to our band, what you are hearing is the sound of listening.” It’s his third live album and will include a Bandcamp-released deluxe special edition with bonus tracks available. In October 2020, the album will be available on vinyl.

2019 saw the release of Ancestral Recall, an album which earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album, bringing Adjuah’s total nominations count to three.  In a review for OffBeat, Geraldine Wyckoff said of the album, “Scott’s Ancestral Recall, which is filled with his original compositions, challenges listeners to accept his sometimes thought-provoking, often moving and occasionally perplexing visions. No one ever said Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah was easy.”

Adjuah was recently coronated as Chieftan and Idi of the Xodokan Nation of New Orleans Black Masking Nations.

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