A "Revolution Sort of Percolating". Sarah Elizabeth Charles and Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah at the Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival
Sarah about music in circles known as Jazz: "I feel there's a revolution sort of percolating.' Adjuah: 'The further you go backward, the further you will go forward."
Sarah Elizabeth Charles / Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah. Interview and Music at the 2017 Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival
Click below to hear this WHOLE first Hour-or-so (Hour #5 with Sarah and Christian in the Spiritual as Music series. We recorded it one Saturday night of of March 2017 during the illustrious Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival.
The second ‘Spiritual as Music’ Hour with Sarah and Adjuah, soon to come, includes Tracks by DANILO PEREZ and GONZALO RUBACALA, both of them also performed at PAP-JAZZ 2017, and by Adjuah’s uncle, DONALD HARRISON, JR., the bandleader and composer who brought Adjuah onto world-class Stages when Adjuah was a teen-ager.
All 22 Hours of the SPIRITUAL AS MUSIC series can be found HERE.
Please check out all recordings and performances of SARAH and ADJUAH.
TIMELINE
O:OO—1:31 Excerpt from Sarah’s “Inner Dialogue” as video trailer for her 2015 album.
1:32–6:52 Don Paul’s views of Sarah, Christian, Danilo Pérez and Gonzalo Rubalcaba as leading music-makers in a rising, 21st-century movement to create new, contemporary, and meaningful compositions from artists’ roots. Sarah, Christian, Danilo and Gonzalo are all performing the weekend of March 4th and 5th, 2017 at the 11th annual Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival.
6:52—7:53 Excerpt from the Willerm Delisfort Group’s “Without a Home”, featuring singer Sarah Elizabeth Charles, at the 2014 PAP IJF. Willerm Delisfort keyboard, Jonathan Michel bass, Nawar Marshall drums, Christian McBride saxophone, Marquise Hill trumpet.
7:53—9:08 The high quality of the PAP IJF and of Sarah’s artistry as musician and video-director.
9:08—14:10 “White and Blue” from Inner Dialogue, the album that Sarah and Christian co-produced..John Davis drums, Burniss Elder Travis bass, Jesse Elder piano.
14:10—17:18 How Sarsh’s and Adjuah’s musical partnership evolved and the trust in each other that lets it “soar”.
17:18—22:44 “Bells”, featuring Christian on trumpet, from Inner Dialogue.
22:44—24:24. Christian on his admiration for Sarah’s “intellect” and band-leading and his intentions for his ’Stretch Music’ and its multiple layerings.
24:24—28-38 “Twin” from Christian’s 2015 album .
28:39—30:26 “The Canal Suite: Premontion in Rhythm” by Danilo Pérez from Danilo’s 2015 album Panama 500.
30:27—33:56 Talk from Christian about “the further you go backward the further you will go forward” and from Sarah Elizabeth about feeling “a revolution sort of percolating” that will “take back not only jazz, but all the music.”
33:57—38:45 “March to Revolution” from Sarah Elizabeth, released in October 2016.
38:46—43:32 Don Paul asks what Sarah and Christian what they think is “the passional root” of their generation’s new music; Sarah describes the need to “open up”; Christian praises Kamasi Washington and Kendrick Lamar for helping to raise “jazz” again as a popular medium for complex expressions.
43:32—49:16 “Litany against Fear” by Christian from his 2007 album Anthem.
49:17—50:31. Marcus Gilmore, drummer on Anthem, went on to be the drummer with Gonzalo Rubalcaba on 2008’s Avator and 2012’s 21 Century. Christian talks about learning from Danny Barker and Doc Cheatam that jazz is a more sophisticated expression of sincere feeling.
50:32—60:53 “West of the West” from Christian’s 2015 Stretch Music, live with his band of Kris Funn bass, Corey Fonville drums, Lawrence Ellis keyboards, Braxton Cook, Dominic Minix guitars, at KNKX in Tacoma, Washington.