Stretch Music (Introducing Elena Pinderhughes) is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott released on September 18, 2015 by Ropeadope Records. This is his fifth full-length studio album as a leader.
Scott explains that his concept of stretch music (or “forecasting cells” in his liners) is an approach to create a more absorbent and sensitive kind of jazz. The concept fully understands and respects the jazz traditions that came before and doesn’t attempt to replace them, instead trying to embrace within its rhythmic and harmonic frameworks as many musical forms and cultural languages as possible. “We are attempting to stretch—not replace—jazz’s rhythmic, melodic and harmonic conventions to encompass as many musical forms/languages/cultures as we can,” he says on his website. He started exploring this approach on his 2010 album Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. His next albums Christian aTunde Adjuah and Stretch Music are thoughtful extensions of that trend…read more.
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Released: September 18th, 2015
Recorded: December 17th – 19th, 2014
Record Label: Ropeadope Records
Location Recorded: The Berklee College of Music’s Shames Family Scoring Stage, Boston, MA | The Parlor, New Orleans, LA
Producer: Chris Dunn
Album Length: 50 min / 56 sec
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