#JOEY ALEXANDER PIANO PRODIGY CRACK#
The album entered the Billboard 200 at number 174, making him the first Indonesian act to crack the U.S. The qualities of Joey Alexanders piano skills that make him a prodigy A quick listen tells the following to me: He is rhythmically strong. He released his debut album, My Favorite Things, last May. They moved to New York City after he was granted an O-1B Visa, awarded to “individuals with an extraordinary ability in the arts or extraordinary achievement in motion picture or television industry.”ģ. “When I got back from work, I saw him playing a very complex melody,” Joey's father Denny Sila told CBS New York in 2014.Īlexander was born in Bali and later moved to Jakarta with his parents. He taught himself to play piano at the age of six after his father bought him a keyboard. So who is he? Here are five quick facts about the child prodigy.ġ. In the first decade of his life, jazz pianist Joey Alexander released his first album and became the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Grammy at age 11. When jazz great Wynton Marsalis first heard Joey Alexander play the piano, he was. Expect to see him in concert halls for years to come, and for young players in 55 years to be playing his eventual compositions.12-year-old Grammy nominee Joey Alexander stole hearts and won a standing ovation at tonight's ceremony with his precocious piano skills and bashful demeanor. The child prodigy plays his own composition at the Newport Jazz Festival. The song was composed by John Coltrane in 1960.and although it would be unfair to compare the young pianist to one of the greatest musicians of the 20th Century, the ten-plus minute interpretation of the saxophonist's classic reflects much more than a student carefully copying the works of a master, but rather an interpretation that's both carefully organized and spontaneous.Īlexander is the real deal. Raised listening to his dads old records, Joey Alexander plays a brand of sharp, modern piano jazz that you likely wouldnt expect to hear from a pre-teenager. The title track might attract the eye, thanks to its familiar title, but the brilliance of Alexander can be grasped best during the opening number, "Giant Steps," where he quite literally walks in the wake of jazz giants. At age 11, he has certainly not been alive long enough to justify the soulful experience that he exacts from the keyboard on his first album, My Favorite Things. Joey Alexander, the 14-year old Grammy-nominated jazz pianist from Indonesia, is scheduled to perform with this band The Joey Alexander Trio at the Esplanade Concert Hall on Tuesday, November 7th. Joey Alexander, a prodigious piano player of Indonesian descent, suggests that some people can be born with that feel. Many have argued for the former, suggesting that the emotions that bluesmen drag from their guitars or that a horn player can emit from a trumpet is the result of a lifetime of playing experience, and a lifetime of living experience at that.
It's not just casual crap that music writers throw around.the ability of to project different sensations from an instrument is possibly a skill or possibly a talent. You often hear about the "feel" of an instrument. At age 6, he taught himself to play the piano by. Despite his age, Alexander is already considered a masterful jazz talent, with the reputation of a seasoned musician. This week we look at 'My Favorite Things,' the debut album of jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander. But that is precisely what happened earlier this year when Joey Alexander, a musical prodigy from Bali, Indonesia, performed a dazzling piano solo at the 58th Grammy Awards. We hope to give a fighting chance to the bands you haven't heard of. Listen as the 11-year-old delights the TED crowd with his very special performance of a Thelonious Monk classic. A native of Bali, Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano by listening to classic jazz albums his father shared with him. Back of The Billboards is a Music Times weekly segment that looks at the opposite end: the new record that finished closest to the back of the Billboard 200 for the previous week. Raised listening to his dads old records, Joey Alexander plays a brand of sharp, modern piano jazz that you likely wouldnt expect to hear from a pre-teenager. Society always celebrates the records that top the Billboard 200 album chart.
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