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Chief Adjuah Live Preview: 1/31, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago

Chief Adjuah

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Since we last recommended jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Chief Adjuah (fka Christian Scott), he's released a few terrific records on longtime label Ropeadope. Most recent was 2023's Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning, his first to not feature trumpet and instead the n'goni and his own handcrafted string instrument. The album combines influences from West African music as well as that of his birthplace, New Orleans, as he continues to reclaim his identity as part of a long lineage of Black Indians in Louisiana. (He's Chieftain and Oba of the Xodokan Nation.) Fittingly, on the day of its release, the Ashe Cultural Arts Center named him as the Maafa 2023 Grand Griot. The inventor of Stretch Music continues to expand the reach of contemporary jazz.

Tonight, Chief Adjuah performs at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. The concert is supported by the Logan Center Jazz Forever Fund, a gift of the Revada Foundation and the Harve A. Ferrill Concert Fund. It's presented in partnership with Chicago Jazz Magazine, DownBeat, Jazz Institute of Chicago, and WDCB 90.9 FM. The show, currently sold out, starts at 7:30 P.M.