Jazz phenom and New Orleans native Christian Scott is gearing up to release his next album, Rebel Ruler, on March 31 via Ropeadope. The record will be the first release in his “Centennial Trilogy,” a series of albums honoring 100 years since the first jazz recordings. According to the New York Times, the trilogy will highlight how little has changed in the past century.

“A lot of what was going on when those guys were making those documents, it’s happening right here right now,” he told the publication in reference to the 1917 recordings by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. “If you’re honest, it’s very hard to differentiate between what was going on then socially, and what’s going on now socially.”

Last week, the 33-year-old trumpeter and composer put out the first single from Rebel Ruler, a haunting piece called “The Reckoning.” The track finds Scott teaming up a few frequent collaborators—fellow New Orleanians Joe Dyson (drums) and Cliff Hines (guitar), as well as Kristopher Funn (bass), Lawrence Fields (piano) and Corey Fonville (drums).

Scott’s “Centennial Trilogy” comes almost two years after the release of his masterful 2015 album Stretch Music, which OffBeat declared “challenges the mainstream and hard-boppers with electronics, a large ensemble rather than a combo and music that is often somewhat ethereal.”

A graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Scott will return to his old school tonight for recording of BBC Radio’s Arts Hour on Tour. The sold out event will also feature sets from the Hot 8 Brass Band, along with a panel of guests that includes actor Harry Shearer, WWNO radio host Janae Pierre, and comedian Kamari Stevens.