Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

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Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
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Studio album by
Christian Scott
ReleasedFebruary 1, 2010 (UK), March 30, 2010 (US)
RecordedRecorded April 22–25, 2009
StudioVan Gelder Recording Studio, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length67:30
Label Concord Music Group
Producer Chris Dunn and Christian Scott
Christian Scott chronology
Live at Newport
(2008)		Yesterday You Said Tomorrow
(2010)		 Christian aTunde Adjuah
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Entertainment Weekly A− [3]
Jazzwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Tom Hull B [5]

Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Christian Scott. [6] Concord Music Group released the album on February 1, 2010, in the UK and on March 30, 2010, in the US.

Contents

Background

As Scott says in the album's liner notes, this album "was designed in subject matter and sound to have the brevity and character of the recordings of the '60s," inspired by the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. [7] Yesterday You Said Tomorrow is a successful manifestation of the music concept that he calls "stretch music". The concept understands and respects the jazz traditions that came before and doesn't attempt to replace them, instead trying to embrace within its rhythmic and harmonic frameworks as many musical forms and cultural languages as possible. His later albums Christian aTunde Adjuah and Stretch Music will be thoughtful extensions of that model. [8]

Reception

Graham Reid of Elsewhere stated "Recorded, mixed and mastered by Blue Note legend Rudy Van Gelder, this album has the sonic presence of some of the classic Sixties albums and Scott is on record saying he was inspired by albums like Dylan's Blonde on Blonde as much as politically engaged material by Coltrane and others. Scott is one of the most interesting and innovative musicians of his post-Wynton generation and this excellent album should secure his place as a leader in jazz which is not only different, interesting and emotionally engaging but music with depth which invites political and social discussion. That makes him a very rare musician – jazz or otherwise – indeed." [9]

Chris May of All About Jazz wrote "Trumpeter Christian Scott started raising expectations in 2006, with Rewind That (Concord), and hit the spot again in 2007 and 2008. Those earlier promises of greatness are clinched by Yesterday You Said Tomorrow. Scott's fourth Concord album is a gym-ripped amalgam of edgy jazz, hip hop and rock rhythms, off-kilter ostinatos, intimate rhapsodies and full-on passions, all welded together by the New Orleans-born player's alternately caressing and searing horn, and by his most tightly focused band to date." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Christian Scott unless otherwise indicated.

  1. K.K.P.D. (7:08)
  2. The Eraser (5:30), written by Thom Yorke
  3. After All (7:55), written by Matthew Stevens
  4. Isadora (6:16)
  5. Angola, LA & The 13th Amendment (8:40)
  6. The Last Broken Heart (Prop 8) (5:49)
  7. Jenacide (The Inevitable Rise and Fall of the Bloodless Revolution) (6:51)
  8. The American't (7:09)
  9. An Unending Repentance (9:42)
  10. The Roe Effect (Refrain in F♯ Minor) (3:17), written with Matthew Stevens

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2010)Peak
position
US Jazz Albums (Billboard) [11] 8

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  2. ↑ Barton, Chris (March 30, 2010). "Album review: Christian Scott's 'Yesterday You Said Tomorrow'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  3. ↑ WILLIAMS, K. LEANDER (March 31, 2010). "Yesterday You Said Tomorrow". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ Shore, Robert (January 29, 2010). "Christian Scott - Yesterday You Said Tomorrow ****". Jazzwise . Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Christian Scott". Tom Hull . Retrieved July 9, 2020.
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  7. ↑ Joyce, Mike (March 26, 2010). "CD review: Christian Scott's 'Yesterday You Said Tomorrow'". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Christian aTunde Adjuah – Christian Scott". AllMusic. 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
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