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POSTPONED – Chief Adjuah (formerly Christian Scott) at Jimmy’s

Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club
135 Congress St
Portsmouth, NH 03801 US

๐Ÿ”๐ฑ-๐†๐‘๐€๐Œ๐Œ๐˜ยฎ ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐“๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ & ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ ๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐‚๐‡๐‘๐ˆ๐’๐“๐ˆ๐€๐ ๐’๐‚๐Ž๐“๐“ ๐š๐“๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž ๐€๐๐ฃ๐ฎ๐š๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ-๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž ๐„๐๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐€๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐š๐ง. Since 2002, Scott has released 12 critically acclaimed studio recordings, 3 live albums and one greatest hits collection. According to NPR, Scott โ€œushers in new era of jazz” and Jazz Times calls him “Jazz’s young style God.”

๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€œ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅโ€ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง-๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ , emphasizing breath over vibration at the mouthpiece. The technique is known as his โ€œwhisper technique.โ€ Scott is also the progenitor of โ€œStretch Music,โ€ a jazz rooted, genre blind musical form that attempts to โ€œstretchโ€ jazzโ€™s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass multiple musical forms, languages and cultures.

๐ˆ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ•, ๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฌ, ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž๐ โ€˜๐“๐ก๐ž ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ง๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐“๐ซ๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒโ€™, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐๐ž๐›๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ #๐Ÿ ๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐“๐ฎ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ. The trilogy includes โ€˜Ruler Rebelโ€™, โ€˜Diasporaโ€™ and โ€˜Emancipation Procrastinationโ€™. Scott released โ€˜Ancestral Recallโ€™ in 2019, which features poet laureate Saul Williams. Both โ€˜Emancipation Procrastinationโ€™ and โ€˜Ancestral Recallโ€™ were Nominated for GRAMMYยฎ Awards in the โ€œBest Contemporary Instrumental Albumโ€ category.

โ€˜๐€๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฆโ€™, ๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž, ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐›๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐๐ž๐ฐ ๐˜๐จ๐ซ๐คโ€™๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ž ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐‚๐ฅ๐ฎ๐› ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐ค๐๐จ๐ฐ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐”.๐’. Around the globe, fans and critics alike herald Scottโ€™s live performance prowess. Notable highlights include a sold-out Carnegie Hall concert and NPRโ€™s Jazz Night in America global broadcast. With Axiom, music fans hear Scott and his stellar band live, once again. Scott was Nominated for GRAMMYยฎ Awards in the โ€œBest Contemporary Instrumental Albumโ€ category for Axiom and for โ€œBest Improvised Jazz Soloโ€ for his performance on Axiomโ€™s โ€œGuinevereโ€.

๐€๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐‚๐จ๐ง๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ/๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ ๐Œ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐†๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ ๐“๐จ๐ฉ ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐›๐จ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐Œ๐š๐ ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐‰๐š๐ณ๐ณ ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฌ, the non-jazz classification of the last 3 GRAMMYยฎ Award Album Nominations substantiates Scottโ€™s vision for Stretch music as truly genre blind.

๐’๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ŸŽ๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ”, ๐‚๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ง ๐’๐œ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ง๐œ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐  Prince, Radioheadโ€™s Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Eddie Palmieri, Boney James, rappers Mos Def (Yasin Bey), Talib Kweli, Jose James, and Vic Mensa, as well as heralded poet and musician Saul Williams.

“‘๐‘จ๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’,’ ๐‘ด๐’“. ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’๐’๐’… ๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’–๐’Ž, ๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’๐’๐’š ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’๐’Š๐’๐’Œ ๐’Š๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’Š๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’–๐’”, ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’๐’‚๐’…-๐’Ž๐’Š๐’๐’…๐’†๐’… ๐’˜๐’๐’“๐’Œ…๐‘ด๐’“. ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’„๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’†๐’“ โ€” ๐’‚๐’Ž๐’๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’”๐’• ๐’‰๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰ ๐’‘๐’“๐’๐’‡๐’Š๐’๐’† ๐’Š๐’ ๐’‹๐’‚๐’›๐’› ๐’•๐’๐’…๐’‚๐’š…๐‘ฏ๐’† ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‚ ๐’‘๐’‚๐’•๐’‰ ๐’๐’‡ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’๐’˜๐’, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’“, ๐’Š๐’•โ€™๐’” ๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’Œ๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’†๐’˜ ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’….”
โ€” ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ๐‘พ ๐’€๐‘ถ๐‘น๐‘ฒ ๐‘ป๐‘ฐ๐‘ด๐‘ฌ๐‘บ

“๐‘ป๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’†๐’™๐’„๐’†๐’‘๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’๐’‚๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’๐’„๐’†๐’“๐’• ๐’„๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ ๐’„๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’†๐’๐’ ๐’ƒ๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’Š๐’“๐’”๐’• ๐’๐’‡ “๐’‹๐’‚๐’›๐’›’๐’”” ๐’‘๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’†๐’๐’• ๐’…๐’‚๐’š, ๐’„๐’๐’‚๐’”๐’”๐’Š๐’„ ๐’๐’Š๐’—๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’ƒ๐’–๐’Ž๐’”…๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’Š๐’” ๐’‡๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’‰, ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’–๐’”๐’Š๐’„๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’‰๐’Š๐’‘ ๐’‡๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’‚๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’„…๐’”๐’†๐’ˆ๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’•๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’†๐’—๐’๐’Œ๐’† ๐’‚ ๐’๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’“ ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’† ๐‘ด๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’” ๐‘ซ๐’‚๐’—๐’Š๐’”.”
โ€” ๐‘จ๐‘ณ๐‘ณ ๐‘จ๐‘ฉ๐‘ถ๐‘ผ๐‘ป ๐‘ฑ๐‘จ๐’๐’ (๐‘น๐’†๐’—๐’Š๐’†๐’˜ ๐’๐’‡ ‘๐‘จ๐’™๐’Š๐’๐’Ž’ ๐‘จ๐’๐’ƒ๐’–๐’Ž)

“๐‘ฝ๐’Š๐’”๐’Š๐’๐’๐’‚๐’“๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ช๐’๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’”๐’†๐’“ ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’• ๐’‚๐‘ป๐’–๐’๐’…๐’† ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‹๐’–๐’‚๐’‰ ๐‘จ๐’ˆ๐’‚๐’Š๐’ ๐‘ป๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’”๐’„๐’†๐’๐’…๐’” ๐‘ฑ๐’‚๐’›๐’› ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐‘ฎ๐’†๐’๐’“๐’†๐’” ๐’˜๐’Š๐’•๐’‰ โ€˜๐‘จ๐’๐’„๐’†๐’”๐’•๐’“๐’‚๐’ ๐‘น๐’†๐’„๐’‚๐’๐’โ€™… ๐’‘๐’–๐’๐’”๐’‚๐’•๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’“๐’‰๐’š๐’•๐’‰๐’Ž๐’”, ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’•๐’”, ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’”๐’๐’‚๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’‰๐’๐’“๐’๐’” ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’”๐’‰๐’Š๐’‡๐’• ๐’”๐’†๐’‚๐’Ž๐’๐’†๐’”๐’”๐’๐’š ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’‚๐’„๐’๐’–๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’„ ๐’•๐’ ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’„๐’•๐’“๐’๐’๐’Š๐’„ ๐’Ž๐’๐’…๐’†๐’”. ๐‘ป๐’‰๐’†๐’“๐’†โ€™๐’” ๐’‹๐’–๐’”๐’• ๐’”๐’ ๐’Ž๐’–๐’„๐’‰ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‡๐’†๐’‚๐’”๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’” ๐’๐’…”
โ€” ๐‘ฎ๐‘ณ๐‘ฐ๐‘ซ๐‘ฌ ๐‘ด๐‘จ๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐’๐‘ฐ๐‘ต๐‘ฌ

“๐‘ณ๐’‚๐’”๐’• ๐’˜๐’†๐’†๐’Œ, ๐‘ฐ ๐’•๐’๐’๐’Œ ๐’Ž๐’š ๐’–๐’”๐’–๐’‚๐’ ๐’”๐’†๐’‚๐’• ๐’‚๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’“ ๐’‡๐’๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’‘๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• (1 ๐’๐’‡ 4) ๐’๐’‡ ๐‘ช๐’‰๐’“๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’Š๐’‚๐’ ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’• ๐’‚๐‘ป๐’–๐’๐’…๐’† ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‹๐’–๐’‚๐’‰โ€™๐’” ๐’ˆ๐’Š๐’ˆ ๐’‚๐’• ๐‘น๐’๐’๐’๐’Š๐’† ๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’•โ€™๐’”. ๐‘ท๐’๐’‚๐’š๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’•๐’ ๐’‚ ๐’‡๐’–๐’๐’ ๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’”๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚๐’ ๐’‚๐’–๐’…๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’‚๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’„๐’‚๐’‘๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’‚๐’•๐’†๐’… ๐’‡๐’“๐’๐’Ž ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’Ž๐’๐’Ž๐’†๐’๐’• ๐‘จ๐’…๐’‹๐’–๐’‚๐’‰ ๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’… ๐’๐’ ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’”๐’•๐’‚๐’ˆ๐’†…๐‘บ๐’„๐’๐’•๐’• ๐’˜๐’‚๐’” ๐’•๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‚๐’–๐’…๐’Š๐’†๐’๐’„๐’† ๐’•๐’ ๐’๐’Š๐’”๐’•๐’†๐’ ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’˜ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’Ž ๐’๐’ ๐’‚๐’ ๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’…๐’–๐’“๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’˜๐’‰๐’Š๐’„๐’‰ ๐’‰๐’Š๐’” ๐’ƒ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’˜๐’๐’–๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’Ž ๐’‚๐’• 200% ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’๐’†๐’—๐’†๐’“ ๐’๐’๐’”๐’† ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’†๐’๐’†๐’“๐’ˆ๐’š ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‘๐’๐’˜๐’†๐’“ ๐’•๐’‰๐’“๐’๐’–๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’• ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’๐’๐’† ๐’‚๐’๐’… ๐’‚ ๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’‡ ๐’‰๐’๐’–๐’“โ€™๐’” ๐’‘๐’†๐’“๐’‡๐’๐’“๐’Ž๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†!”
โ€” ๐‘ฑ๐‘จ๐’๐’ ๐‘ฐ๐‘ต ๐‘ฌ๐‘ผ๐‘น๐‘ถ๐‘ท๐‘ฌ

Sale Dates and Times:

Public Onsale : Sun, 20 Mar 2022 at 10:00 AM

Inner Circle : Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00 PM

Patron Circle : Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 10:00 AM

Friends Circle : Fri, 18 Mar 2022 at 10:00 AM