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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah

Feb 1, 2025

07:00 PM

Hancher Auditorium, Strauss Hall / Cabaret

141 Park Road, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah wearing gold outfit against a gold background. He is standing facing right, but looking straight on at the camera. Club Hancher text treatment in upper left corner

TICKETS
Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, July 29 at 10 a.m.
Adults $20
Students & Youth $10

Part of Hancher's 52nd Season

Part of Club Hancher

When it comes to passionate innovators pushing music in new directions, this artist is chief among them.

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah contains multitudes. “[J]ust because it can be said that my work is inherently jazz does not mean that it is exclusively jazz,” the musician has posited. Perhaps best known as a trumpeter, he is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer who has not only rethought the foundations of music, but also the techniques for making that music. Whether employing a new harmonic convention or an unvoiced tone emphasizing breath over vibration, Adjuah is stretching our understanding of what’s possible on the bandstand. That’s why he calls his creative output “Stretch Music.”

“New Orleans musician [Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah] craves a more absorbent and sensitive kind of jazz. [The album] Stretch Music finds him experimenting with moods and electronic textures, bumping against the genre's conventions even as he remains rooted in tradition.”  Pitchfork

Formerly known as Christian Scott.

HANCHER EVENT PARTNERS
Vernon Hein Fund

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