Christian Scott Atunde Adjuah 4/23/17 Yale Art Gallery Theater

Caught the last few songs of this Sunday afternoon performance. The show was another leg in the Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective's weekend long festival. Christian Scott is a Nawlins trumpet player. He was backed by an expert crew of young lions. Scott played the Dizzy style of trumpet ( you know the one where the bell shoots up at an obtuse angle). The group had piano, bass (standup and electric), sax, and monster drums. The suffix on Scott's name comes the fact that he is Donald Harrison Sr.'s grandson. This grandfather was one of the original Chiefs. Christian, at 34, is now a Chief (hence the suffix). Scott, pianist, and drummer cut their teeth together at Berklee in Boston. Scott recounted this fascinating tale of the grandpa Chief. Every Sunday the Chief would bag all the food in the house and walk the entire city giving it away, when he ran out, he'd stop and buy more for the 7 hour walk. Young Christian went on these walks and saw faces, hungry, happy, ashamed, all took the Chief's offering. The grandpa Chief is credited as uniting the wards and the other Chiefs through food, love, and inclusion. The final piece was an epic battle between trumpet and drums, with Scott blowing his horn straight at the kick drum, the result was less a cancelling of sound but a melding of the ferocity....wow.