Stretch Music

by Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 18 September 2015
  • Label: Ropeadope
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:57
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

With 'Stretch Music', the visionary trumpeter introduces a profound conceptual framework designed to obliterate traditional genre boundaries. The ensemble relentlessly integrates the harmonic language of modern jazz with the rhythmic vitality of hip-hop, trap, and indigenous traditional music. This passionate, futuristic fusion honors the improvisational spirit of the genre while radically updating its vocabulary for a new generation.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Sunrise in Beijing (Feat. Elena Pinderhughes) (05:04)
  2. TWIN (04:15)
  3. Perspectives (04:22)
  4. West of the West (08:07)
  5. Liberation over Gangsterism (Feat. Elena Pinderhughes) (04:09)
  6. The Corner (Feat. Braxton Cook) (01:34)
  7. Of a New Cool (07:34)
  8. Runnin 7's (02:07)
  9. Tantric (04:24)
  10. The Last Chieftain (Feat. Matthew Stevens) (07:11)
  11. The Horizon (02:10)

Credits

  • Elena Pinderhughes - primary artist, flute, featuring
  • Braxton Cook - alto saxophone, alto saxophone [straight alto], featuring
  • Kris Funn - bass, written-by
  • Joe Dyson - drums [pan african], sampler [spd-sx]
  • Corey Fonville - drums, sampler [spd-sx]
  • Cliff Hines - guitar
  • Matthew Stevens - guitar, featuring
  • Lawrence Fields - piano, electric piano [fender rhodes], written-by

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