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Rarely these days is a jazz musician able to puncture the mainstream and even make a dent in contemporary music outside of music schools and dank jazz clubs serving gin and tonics and unfiltered ‘cool’ by the glass. But, there is a small niche of young jazz artists around these days who are keeping the music alive and in some cases taking it places the old guard never did. Christian Scott is a trumpeter from New Orleans who graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2004 and has since released two full-length recordings and a live CD/DVD from his performance at the 2008 Newport Jazz Fest.