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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Joey Alexander - Giant Steps

Get ready to have your brain blown right through your skull into the stratosphere.

4 comments:

  1. I was wondering why the boy was wearing headphones, seaming to have his fingers respond to what he was listening to.

    Clicking over to YouTube, the comments reveal this "child" is a prodigy who is:
    "playing John Coltrane's iconic tune Giant Steps with a professional rhythm section and not just keeping up with them but leading through his own creation, improvising?"
    &
    "Not only has he mastered the mechanics of playing the music but he has remarkable feel of the music "

    More on Joey Alexander
    Now 10 years old, Joey Alexander is a precocious self-taught jazz pianist!!!

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  2. That page says he is from Indonesia.

    That's a little confusing because in the interview with him, here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCyfG9M5hz4

    he speaks with an American accent.

    His "father's" name is Sila, which sounds Filipino not Indonesian, but his name is Alexander.

    Alexander is usually a Jewish name.

    When I saw the kid, I guessed he was a Jewish Filipino mix.

    If he has been living in Indonesia, it seems he has been living and educated by Americans.

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  3. No, I am wrong. He does have something other than an American accent. My bad.

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  4. No, I am wrong. He does have something other than an American accent. My bad.

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