When is the last time you saw a jazz festival that had all jazz musicians? Does this even matter in 2023? I'm poking the bear and asking some serious questio...
That's why Chief Adjuah rejects the label jazz, refuses to label his music as such, and instead prefers terms like "stretch music." The term is ruined. In his own words, "Oftentimes when we come into environments like this to play creative improvised music, someone uses the word ‘jazz,’ and then everyone in the room becomes a fuckin’ Fulbright scholar. And that’s cool, but that has nothing to do with where this music’s power rests.”
That's why Chief Adjuah rejects the label jazz, refuses to label his music as such, and instead prefers terms like "stretch music." The term is ruined. In his own words, "Oftentimes when we come into environments like this to play creative improvised music, someone uses the word ‘jazz,’ and then everyone in the room becomes a fuckin’ Fulbright scholar. And that’s cool, but that has nothing to do with where this music’s power rests.”