The Emancipation Procrastination
The Emancipation Procrastination | ||||
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Studio album by Christian Scott | ||||
Released | October 20, 2017 | |||
Recorded | April 16–21, 2016 | |||
Studio | The Parlor, New Orleans, LA | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 53:01 | |||
Label |
Ropeadope Records RAD-380, Stretch Music | |||
Producer | Christian aTunde Adjuah, Chris Dunn | |||
Christian Scott chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 83/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | |
Exclaim! | 9/10[3] |
Sputnikmusic | 4/5[4] |
Erie Reader | 4.25/5[5] |
Pitchfork | 7.9/10[6] |
The Emancipation Procrastination is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott released on October 20, 2017 by Ropeadope Records.[7] The album is the third and final installment of The Centennial Trilogy, with Ruler Rebel and Diaspora being the first and the second respectively.[8]
Background
The album's title refers to a reworking of President Lincoln's 1863 proclamation to free some three million enslaved people in the South of the United States.[9][10] The Emancipation Procrastination delves into darkness and social commentary rarely treated with such a light hand.[11]
Reception
At Metacritic, that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on four reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
Seth Colter Walls of Pitchfork stated "After two releases filled with high-concept fusion, some listeners might be hungry for solos that hang around longer and aren’t so beholden to the mood of the production. Adjuah delivers exactly this on The Emancipation Procrastination. It is also here that he more willingly invites associations with past styles. The prominent use of electric guitar suggests a vintage rock-fusion approach, and soulful Fender Rhodes playing by Lawrence Fields often seems like it’s channeling some of Miles Davis’ late-1960s sound... he settles on a final texture, one both burnished and regal. It’s the sound of a player confident not just in his chops, but fully at home in his own compositional world."[12]
Matt Collar of Allmusic wrote "The Emancipation Procrastination... flips the paradigm, and fully embraces his own brand of trip-hop-inflected electronic jazz fusion. It's an approach he's been exploring since at least 2015's Stretch Music, an album whose title Scott also uses as an all-encompassing definition for his particular style of jazz. The definition might even be more applicable than ever here, as Scott pushes his sound even further away from the strict jazz tradition and into a multi-hyphenated region of jazz-tinged trip-hop electronica. As the title implies, The Emancipation Procrastination is a break from the past, and is so forward-thinking and contemporary that it really doesn't sound like a jazz album in any traditional sense. But you get the distinct impression that Scott wouldn't have it any other way."[13]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "The Emancipation Procrastination" | Scott | 6:25 |
2. | "AvengHer" | Scott | 5:02 |
3. | "Ruler Rebel (X. aTunde Adjuah Remix)" | Scott | 5:54 |
4. | "Ashes of Our Forever" | Scott | 4:07 |
5. | "In the Beginning (Interlude)" (Feat. Weedie Braimah) | Weedie Braimah | 2:24 |
6. | "Michele with One L" | Scott | 3:11 |
7. | "The Cypher" | Scott | 4:46 |
8. | "Videotape" | Colin Charles Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Philip James Selway | 4:40 |
9. | "Gerrymandering Game" | Cliff Hynes, Scott, Lawrence Fields | 2:03 |
10. | "Unrigging November" | Scott | 5:00 |
11. | "Cages" (Feat. Stephen J. Gladney) | Scott, Lawrence Fields | 9:34 |
12. | "New Heroes" | Scott, Lawrence Fields | 10:45 |
Total length: | 53:01 |
Personnel
- Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah – trumpet, siren, flugelhorn, MIDI controller [SPD-SX] (tracks: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
- Braxton Cook – alto saxophone (tracks: 1 3 4 7 8 11 12)
- Kris Funn – bass (tracks: 1 3 7 8 11 12)
- Luques Curtis – bass (tracks: 4 6 10)
- Weedie Braimah – djembe, bata, congas (tracks: 2 5 10)
- Joe Dyson Jr. – drums, MIDI controller [SPD-SX] (tracks: 1 3 4 7 10)
- Corey Fonville – drums, MIDI controller [SPD-SX] (tracks: 1 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
- Marcus Gillmore – drums, MIDI controller [SPD-SX] (tracks: 2)
- Elena Pinderhughes – flute (tracks: 1 3 4 7 8 12)
- Cliff Hines – guitar (tracks: 3 4 9 10)
- Dominic Minix – guitar (tracks: 8)
- Matthew Stevens – guitar (tracks: 1 12)
- Lawrence Fields – piano, electric piano (tracks: 1 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12)
- Stephen J. Gladney – tenor saxophone (tracks: 11)
Chart performance
Chart (2017) | Peak position |
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US Jazz Albums (Billboard)[14] | 7 |
References
- ↑ "THE EMANCIPATION PROCRASTINATION by Christian Scott". Metacritic. metacritic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott: The Emancipation Procrastination". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ Press, Kevin (October 23, 2017). "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The Emancipation Procrastination". Exclaim!. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott The Emancipation Procrastination". Sputnikmusic. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ Swanseger, Matt (November 8, 2017). "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah // The Emancipation Procrastination". Erie Reader. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ Colter Walls, Seth (21 October 2017). "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah The Emancipation Procrastination". Pitchfork. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott – The Emancipation Procrastination". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ Mullin, Kyle (July 19, 2017). "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: The Best Of What's Next". Paste Magazine. pastemagazine.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott: The Emancipation Procrastination". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott - AvengHer. From the upcoming final album, 'The Emancipation Procrastination', of his Centennial Trilogy, due to be released ~Oct 20th". Reddit. reddit.com. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
- ↑ Zacharias, Isabel; Fleeger, Matt (January 5, 2018). "Christian Scott's Centennial Trilogy Is A Masterpiece". KMHD. opb.org. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- ↑ Colter Walls, Seth (October 21, 2017). "Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah Ruler Rebel". Pitchfork. pitchfork.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "Christian Scott: The Emancipation Procrastination". allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
- ↑ "CHRISTIAN SCOTT: CHART HISTORY". Billboard. billboard.com. Retrieved 18 May 2018.