Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival Adds Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey

Trumpeter, composer, and Berklee alumnus Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, debuting his new record Stretch Music, will perform a concert as part of the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival, on Friday, September 25, at 7:30 pm. The concert, which will be webcast worldwide on NPR Music and broadcast on WBGO-FM in New York, will take place in the Red Room at Cafe 939, located at 939 Boylston Street, in Boston.

There will be one show only, and seating is limited. Tickets to the concert, $20 for the general public and $10 with a Berklee ID, are available at cafe939.com. For more information, call 617-747-2261.

Born in New Orleans, Scott aTunde Adjuah began his musical tutelage with his uncle, legendary sax man and jazz innovator Donald Harrison Jr. He has released seven critically acclaimed studio recordings and two live albums. With Stretch Music, Scott aTunde Adjuah explores a jazz-rooted yet genre-blind musical form, stretching the rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic conventions of jazz to encompass as many other musical forms, languages, and cultures as possible. The album, some of which was recorded in Berklee s new Shames Family Scoring Stage earlier this year, features four new instruments designed exclusively for the group-three horns (the siren, sirenette, and reverse flugel) and the pan-African drum kit-as well as traditional jazz instrumentation and Eastern and electronic instruments.

The festival also announces the addition of bass icons Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey to the free, outdoor event on Saturday, September 26, at 3:30 p.m. on the Capital One Stage. Wooten, who has just joined the Berklee faculty as a performance scholar-in-residence, is a five-time Grammy winner who is widely recognized as one of the world's most influential bass players. Bailey, chair of Berklee's Bass Department, is an educator and author who has performed or recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, John Anderson, Willie Nelson, Paquito D'Rivera, Jethro Tull, and others. As a duo, Wooten and Bailey have collaborated frequently on projects such as their popular Bass Extremes series and the Sword and Stone/Words and Tone tour as well as the Victor Wooten/Berklee Summer Bass Program.

Scott aTunde Adjuah, Wooten, and Bailey join an already potent Beantown roster that features Ledisi; Javon Jackson with Jimmy Cobb; the Mosaic Project featuring Terri Lyne Carrington and Jaguar Wright; George Garzone; Omar Thomas with Stefon Harris; David Gilmore; Eguie Castrillo; Carlos Averhoff Jr. featuring Francisco Mela; Paige Bryan; and Alissia Benveniste, among many others. For more information, visit beantownjazz.org.

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