★★★★★
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- www.offbeat.com
2012-06-28
★★★★★
The brilliant young trumpeter Christian Scott made quite an impression when he played two nights at Ronnie Scott's recently. Scott was in London for the UK launch of "Yesterday You Said Tomorrow" his fourth album release for the Concord label. Since Scott, now 26, burst on to the scene in 2006 with his Grammy nominated début "Rewind That" he has he has been in highly creative mode with "Anthem" following in 2007 and the double set "Live At Newport" in 2008...
- www.thejazzmann.com
2010-12-20
★★★★★
If you believe that Mr. Scott's fourth studio CD has a distinctly emotive, yet analog feel to it, then you would be right, because Yesterday You Said Tomorrow combines his modern-day expertise and societal awareness with the vintage recording process that harkens to his 1960s influences (Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Mingus, to name a few) via its moody musical landscape and sound engineering (by the lauded pioneer Rudy Van Gelder). Thanks to his being born and raised in New Orleans, Mr...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Anthem is a fierce album and a worthy follow-up to trumpeter Christian Scott's widely hailed Rewind This. It's such a mature album, both in Scott's consummate playing and the worldliness of the compositions, that it's hard to believe a musician in his early 20s recorded it. Could Scott be the future of jazz? The album opens with "Litany Against Fear," where Scott plays melancholy lines over layers of echoing guitar and piano...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Christian Scott makes every note count. In his short but impressive career he has developed a unique instrumental identity using his "whisper technique," a method that allows him to smear notes, giving his playing a conversational texture and tremendous dynamic range. When Scott takes off with a high intensity run after a series of soft, thickly textured phrases on "K.K.P.D." his playing explodes like fireworks, or maybe like police car sirens...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Neither raw talent nor highly polished technique is enough by itself to distinguish a jazz trumpeter roughly a century after the early masters defined the genre. Christian Scott has demonstrated both the aptitude and the work ethic to set himself apart since he was a teenager in uncle Donald Harrison's band, but separating yourself from even the greatest of influences remains the most daunting task facing a young musician...
- www.offbeat.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Jazz's current youth movement clearly has different prerogatives than its predecessor. Where Wynton Marsalis' buzzword was tradition, for trumpeter Christian Scott, the action is in the streets and over the airwaves, as borne out by his third disc's politically charged song titles and Thom Yorke cover. On Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, Scott's muted tone often echoes Miles Davis', and his guitar-animated quintet can get raucous...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Christian Scott is lounging on a black leather couch, easy and relaxed before taking to the stage at a Moscow jazz club. The cold, gloomy Russian capital hosted the New Orleans trumpeter's quintet for a trio of gigs in February 2009?including a show at the US ambassador's cushy residence, in front of an elite audience of officials and dignitaries. Diplomatic functions do not represent a major part of the group's touring schedule...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Christian Scott Live at Newport Concord Music Group 2008 Creativity is most often found outside the boundaries of established tradition. It's while looking outside of those traditional boundaries that an artist frequently finds his or her own voice. In two previous releases, Rewind That (Concord, 2006) and Anthem (Concord, 2007), trumpeter Christian Scott has attempted to do just that...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
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