BRIC JazzFest 2025 runs tonight (October 17) and tomorrow (October 18) at BRIC House in Brooklyn.
One of the headliners of this year's BRIC JazzFest is Chief (Xian aTunde) Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) who is a two-time Edison Award winner, six-time Grammy Award nominee, and recipient of the Doris Duke Award in the Arts.
Chief Adjuah joined WBGO's Doug Doyle to talk about tonight's concert and his musical legacy and innovation.
Chief Adjuah is described a sonic architect, trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments. These include the Stretch Music App, the Adjuah Trumpet, the Siren and Sirenette, Chief Adjuah’s Bow, and Chief Adjuah’s N’Goni.
He is also the founder and CEO of the Stretch Music App and Recording Company.
Adjuah is Chieftain and Oba of the Xodokan Nation and currently serves as the Grand Griot of New Orleans.
He is the grandson of Louisiana luminary and legend, the late Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., and Guardians Institute founder and Grand Griot Herreast Harrison.
The trumpeter is also the nephew of jazz innovator and NEA Jazz Master saxophonist-composer Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr.
You can SEE Doug Doyle's entire interview with Chief Adjuah below.
