Donald Harrison's Quantum Leap Music Festival — Hornucopia Ii

Donald Harrison and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah perform at the New Orleans Jazz Market for the Quantum Leap Music Festival.

Donald Harrison is a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader from New Orleans who began his professional career in the early nineteen-eighties. After studying under Art Blakey and working with the Jazz Messengers, Harrison developed styles that bridge traditional acoustic jazz, modern post-bop, rhythm and blues, and funk. Alongside his own recordings, Harrison created the Next Generation project to mentor younger instrumentalists and contributed to the soundtrack of various documentary films.

Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, formerly known as Christian Scott, is a trumpeter, composer, and producer from New Orleans who emerged in the mid-two-thousands. Adjuah established an innovative approach to phrasing and extended techniques on the trumpet, introducing modified instruments like the reverse flumpet. Their catalog spans multiple critically acclaimed studio albums exploring jazz history, socio-political themes, and West African rhythmic traditions.

The New Orleans Jazz Market presents this program in New Orleans, offering a performance space dedicated to the presentation of contemporary and classic jazz performances.