Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Earns GRAMMY Nomination for 'The Emancipation Procrastination'

Today trumpeter, composer, and producer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah received a GRAMMY nomination for his album The Emancipation Procrastination. Released on October 20th 2017 via Ropeadope, the album was final album in Adjuah's The Centennial Trilogy: a three-album series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the first jazz recordings. The Centennial Trilogy was praised by Pitchfork, NPR Music, Stereogum, GQ, The New York Times, Interview Magazine, Paste, The FADER, Noisey, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, and many more.

The Emancipation Procrastination is one of five albums nominated in the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album category, listen to the album HERE.

On The Emancipation Procrastination, Adjuah obliterates walls between genres with a completely new production methodology that stretches trap music with West African and New Orleanian Afro-Native American styles. The album also deals directly with the social and political issues of the day. Rather than descend into identity politics, Adjuah sees many disparate cultures being underserved and exploited. Growing up in New Orleans' Upper Ninth Ward, he witnessed people enduring the same challenges regardless of their race or ethnic background: He saw a community of people undereducated to serve the tourist culture, facing food insecurity, yet viewing each other as different through the lens of race.

Seeing this around him, Adjuah came to understand that race is a social construct, and that people could work together to build and move forward. This worldview transcends New Orleans, as Christian has traveled and toured the world for almost 20 years, starting as a child and performing with extraordinary players (McCoy Tyner, Donald Harrison, Eddie Palmieri).

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