Artist: Christian Scott
Album: Stretch Music
Genre: Contemporary Jazz
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2015
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Tracklist:
- Sunrise in Beijing
- Twin
- Perspectives
- West of the West
- Liberation over Gangsterism
- The Corner
- Of a New Cool
- Runnin in 7's (For Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr)
- Tantric
- The Last Chieftain
- The Horizon
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- Personnel:
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah - Trumpet, Sirenette, Reverse Flugelhorn
- Elena Pinderhughes - Flute
- Braxton Cook - Alto, Straight Alto
- Corey King - Trombone
- Cliff Hines - Guitar
- Lawrence Fields – Piano, Fender Rhodes
- Kris Funn – Bass
- Corey Fonville ‒ Drums, SPD-SX pad (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10)
- Joe Dyson Jr. - Pan African Drums, SPD-SX (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
- Matthew Stevens - Guitar (4, 5, 7, 10)
- Warren Wolf - Vibes (3, 7)
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts alum Christian Scott — now bandleader, trumpeter and architect of "stretch music" — explains the term this way: "we are attempting to stretch — not replace — Jazz's rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many musical forms/languages/cultures as we can."
Scott doesn't believe one form or genre or sound or way of making any of those things is any better than the next — and his "stretching" attempts to close those gaps by bridging (then bending, breaking and melting) them into something that resists barriers or description. "Recognizing that all points of view are in fact legitimate, and from there, choosing to learn to communicate in a way where you can reach a consensus," he explains in his sort of manifesto. "This is what you will hear on our recordings; a stretching of Jazz, not a replacement. And this is what I hope younger people will be able to take away from it as well: the idea that innovation should never be regarded as a problem in artistic practice, that one should always be aware of what has come before, and finally, that criticisms shouldn't evoke paralysis, they should inspire action."
Stretch Music, out today on Ropeadope Records, is filled with unpredictable, exciting compositions that still ring familiar as much as they defy the genres they pull from. A wobbly, tremolo-dipped guitar leads "West of the West" with a chorus of brass and a lost yet propulsive drum that drags the song to its psychedelic jazz centerpiece and warps back to its start. Album opener "Sunrise in Beijing" skitters along with a trip-hop influenced beat and a dreamy flute and trumpet duet. Soulful, pop-like horn lines and more traditional jazz sounds still sound otherworldly and slightly bent — sometimes literally, as Scott helped built three horns for the album (a reverse flugelhorn, a siren and a sirenette). Warped, trap-influenced "beats" on "Tantric" give room for Scott's horn rather than an explosive club rap. As Scott told Noisey earlier this month, “Fuck yeah it’s jazz ... But it’s also indie rock. It’s also hip-hop.” (Alex Woodward)
