Prodigious jazz trumpeter and composer Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah will return with a new album, Ancestral Recall, on March 22. It’ll be the 35-year-old’s first full-length record since 2017, when he released three staggering and sprawling records: Ruler Rebel, Diaspora, and The Emancipation Procrastination. Where those albums sought to commemorate the birth of jazz recording, Ancestral Recall more pointed. It is, Adjuah explained when announcing the record last month, an attempt to “de-colonialize sound; to challenge previously held misconceptions about some cultures of music; to codify a new folkloric tradition and begin the work of creating a national set of rhythms; rhythms rooted in the synergy between West African, First Nation, African Diaspora/Caribbean rhythms and their marriage to rhythmic templates found in trap music, alt-rock, and other modern forms.”

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The latest single from the album is “Forevergirl” (premiering below), a hypersyncopated but blissful love song featuring jazz vocalist Chris Turner and rapper Mike Larry Draw. In an email to The FADER this morning, Adjuah explained that the song was rooted in cubism, abstraction, and the desire to see romantic love from as many angles as possible.

