Christian Scott, Ronnie Scott's

Free-thinking US trumpeter Christian Scott leads his killer quintet, featuring Isadora Mendez-Scott on vocals, Matthew Stevens on guitar, Kris Funn on bass and Corey Fonville on drums, in this London return.
Like many many of his contemporaries, Scott has made a name for himself exploring the fertile ground between jazz and hip hop. His 2006 debut Rewind That was a blend of slow-burning grooves and sophisticated R&B that earnt him a Grammy nomination straight out of the starting blocks and showcased the two sides to his sound, which ranges from dusky and Miles Davis-esque to brassy and bold.
He still regularly gets called up by the likes X-Clan and Mos Def, and hip hop remains a major influence in his work, but recent releases have seen him range further afield. Many of the tracks on his 2007 follow-up, Anthem, a meditation on the havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina on Scott’s hometown of New Orleans and the suffering its residents continued to endure, had a dark, indie rock vibe appropriate to the subject matter.
Tracks such as K.K.P.D, from 2010’s Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, and Danziger, from ambitious 2012 double album Christian aTunde ADJuah, tackled issues of inequality and institutional racism, and confirmed both political statements and brooding grooves as key features of his work.
2012’s Ninety Miles Project, a collaboration with Cuban musicians, among them pianists Rember Duharte and Harold López-Nussa, saw Scott explore yet another avenue, and he arrives in London at the height of his creative powers. Catch him while you can.