Christian Scott
Jimmy Mak's
April 17
7pm // All Ages -- Just added!!
9:30pm // 21+
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When Mos Def and Jill Scott need someone to take their performances to the next level, they call him. When X-Clan wanted to add some heft to their Return From Mecca album, he was the one they reached out to. The man in question is Christian Scott, the acclaimed trumpeter whose textured playing appeals to both respected members of the hip-hop community and to jazz purists.
Scott’s ability to harness the attitude, urgency and power of the rap generation and his classically trained musical ear have equally informed Scott’s most impressive work to date, Anthem. It’s an album that stands as a watershed moment in music, a release that will have young fans eager to pick up a trumpet as much as they want to try their hand at rapping. It’s that powerful.
The reason Scott’s music contains such potency is that he was raised to think about things on a major, wide-reaching scale. He’s a product of the streets and the classroom, after all. Given this background and that his parents required that he be informed in local, national and international events, it should come as no surprise that Scott was moved by the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, and by the catastrophic failure of government that has yet to result in the repair of the Gulf Coast region nearly two years after it struck. Scott wanted Anthem to use his native New Orleans to serve as a microcosm for what was going on around the world.