8/6/2023 0 Comments Joey jazz piano prodigyOf course, jazz attracted me.”īy sharing and continuing to share his art with the world, his reputation as one of jazz music’s new vanguard has only grown and as the respect from his fellow musicians continues to pile up, he has experienced one of the most meteoric ascensions ever seen in the world of jazz. I was attracted to all kinds of music…gospel, classical. My father was a guitarist at church, there were cds of course, Youtube where everything can be found. Born in Bali in 2003, then spending his younger years in Jakarta before moving to the US in 2014 at the age of eleven, Alexander has pretty much dedicated his life to his art.Īlexander’s first inclinations for music came from his parents. Growing older usually means a normal lifestyle after their “Facebook fifteen minutes” are up, and as they age their talents become more ordinary compared to others of equal vintage who have practiced and studied their craft instead of being blessed out of the gate.Īlexander has continued on an artistic path, unlike most, and seems poised to push jazz piano to the next level. Luckily for Baby Grand members, Middle C Jazz fans and Charlotteans in general, we are going to see a former child prodigy ply his trade here very soon when award-winning pianist Joey Alexander comes to town! He may possibly be the one to answer the question of how someone who starts off so talented while so very young manages to handle their talent as they grow into adulthood. How many of us watch and wish we could call ourselves one of the best at what we do? How many of us even know someone like that? Rarer than hen’s teeth are these people. Whatever the case, it is amazing to watch, knowing as adults the possibilities that lay ahead for such youngsters, secretly just a little envious we were not blessed with the same gifts. Did her body catch the spirit of some long-gone professional drummer? Maybe just a piece of something divine floating through the ether? Then again, maybe this otherwise unobtainable amount of talent is the result of the union of two perfectly matched people whose combined genes could not help but create a little one with such skills. I swear I was never a believer in reincarnation until watching a four year old girl play the drums like Elvin Jones. And we wonder, as we watch with our eyes open as big as saucers at these wunderkinds, if that isn’t the case. Perched on the edge of a drum throne at a mountainous drumset set up for an adult as they play with precision something Buddy Rich would struggle to play, arms and legs moving independently as if the child is possessed by a soul much, much older than their own. ![]() My personal favorites are the child drummers. Runs that would break, twist and mangle the fingers and hands of those who have played these instruments for most of their lives, fall easily under their miniature counterparts. Awestruck, you watch transfixed as they play these complicated passages easily. They seem impossibly agile as their limbs and fingers flow, creating sounds even veteran musicians wish they could come up with. ![]() While occasionally scrolling Facebook or checking Youtube during your downtime you run across videos of these amazing child prodigies playing a guitar or bass bigger than their hands could possibly fret or maybe even seated at a piano with the spread of the keys seeming impossibly wide, too wide for them to possibly reach all of them, yet they play their instruments as if they’ve been playing them for forty years.
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