Scott’s got a new sound going on at Bohemian Caverns

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The time has arrived for jazz audiences to experience a pair of brand new instruments — the first of their kind in the world and played by award-winning trumpeter-composer-producer-bandleader Christian Scott.

“I’ve got two hybrid b-flat horns,” said Scott, who will be performing live at Bohemian Caverns this week. “One is called a siren — a hybrid of a trumpet, flugelhorn and a coronet. The other is a reverse flugelhorn, which is a [kind] of trumpet but the tuning is backwards.”

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