CHRISTIAN SCOTT
SATURDAY, JUNE 26 • 8 PM
PANTAGES PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
$38 (Plus Agency Fees)
SATURDAY, JUNE 26 • 11 PM
RACHEL BROWNE THEATRE
Club Pass and Wristband venue
Individual show ticket: $18 adv./$20 door
One of the brightest jazz stars to emerge in the last few years is trumpeter Christian Scott. Since his Concord debut, Rewind That, Scott has received significant accolades. He was quickly tapped as one of the faces to watch by Billboard, received a Grammy nomination for Rewind That, and was named one of Ebony’s “30 Young Leaders Under 30.”
His style, sensibility, and musical talent prove his appeal to both the hip hop community and jazz purists, and he has performed with the likes of Prince, Mos Def, DJ Muggs, Marcus Miller, and Glen Ballard (Aerosmith, Michael Jackson, Dave Matthews). This past year Scott topped the Downbeat 2009 Critic’s Poll for Trumpeter of the Year, and he appeared alongside George Clooney in the film Leatherheads as well as in the critically acclaimed Jonathan Demme film Rachel Getting Married starring Anne Hathaway.
Scott is a natural. Born in 1983, the trumpeter has both the tone and the conviction of the great players of his instrument. He eschews cliché and gimmickry in favour of an expressive sensibility and a willingness to break rules when it makes musical sense to him. A New Orleans native, Scott represents the next generation of Crescent City horn blowers whose lineage started with the legendary King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and has continued with such marquee trumpeters as Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, and Nicholas Payton.
Scott graduated at the top of his high school class at the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Armed with a full scholarship, he headed north to Berklee College of Music, where he earned two degrees in two years and eventually launched a music career that has positioned him as one of the great innovators of his generation.
His most recent recording, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, was released on Concord Jazz in early 2010. It reflects the legacy of some of his musical heroes of the ‘60s, and at the same time addresses some of the very important issues of contemporary culture.
