Christian Scott
Christian Scott
Christian Scott, also known as Christian Scott aTunde Adjuahis a Two-time Edison Award-winning, Grammy-nominated American trumpeter, composer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTrumpet Player
Date of Birth31 March 1983
CountryUnited States of America
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I live in New York, but I'm gone 310, 320 days a year. My apartment is storage.
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I kind of prefer to be sort of ahead of the pack checking things out, priming the canvas, if you will, for the younger guys that are going to come up and try to make their own statements about what they feel and what they have to contribute.
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Even if I have a good day, I still am aware of other people that are going through really hard, tumultuous things. I don't want to be the person who has a platform and neglects the things I see in my life and experiences.
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It's funny because as a composer, you want to hear your songs live on. I think a lot of times people will create a song and it becomes stagnant or something that they're no longer interested in playing, and they leave it alone.
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The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.
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The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.
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You can't grow if you're going to say: 'The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.' Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.