Jazz Prodigies and How They Can Inspire - #74

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🗓️ 14 April 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In this episode, Peter and Adam talk about jazz prodigies and what we can learn from them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	This is Adam Manus.
0:16.6	And I'm Peter Martin.
0:18.1	And you're listening to the You'll Hear at podcast.
0:20.4	Daily jazz advice coming at you.
0:32.4	Today we're going to talk about jazz prodigies.
0:35.1	Oh, man, I'm too old to be considered a prodigy.
0:37.2	I appreciate it, though. Thanks.
0:34.3	Oh, you're not talking about me? Well, I mean, maybe back of the day, we can delve into that if you'd like to. I was about to say projidies, but it's prodigies, right? Yeah, man. I couldn't be a progeny if I call it a progeny, right? There's no way. You got it.
1:16.1	So this is from a question actually on our You'll Hear It podcast page. And just a reminder, if you guys would like to ask us questions, you can go to you'll hearit.com and you can actually just, if you're too lazy to type, you can just press a button and speak your question if you'd like. Yeah, we love those because we're too lazy to read. That's right. Or you can certainly type it out and we'll get one of our interns to read it for us. But this is from Sheldon. And I think the question is really about, you know,
1:22.9	in terms of a prodigy, you know, how we can be inspired by them as opposed to being envious.
1:30.3	And I've always been, you know, someone that I've been thinking about a lot, as I'm sure a lot of
1:34.4	people are, because he's sort of the current prodigy du jour. And that would be Joey Alexander,
1:40.2	amazing young pianist out of Indonesia. Incredible. That is, yeah, just an amazing player. And I think there's always been prodigies. You know, we more closely associate them, I think, with classical music, of which there's just, you know, hundreds of them around the world, if not thousands, an amazing number. But in terms of jazz, it's pretty rare somebody comes along like Joey that's,
2:01.1	I don't know, is he 15 now, 14? I don't, yeah, I think he's 14. I know I heard him when he
2:05.4	was 13, some performances, and it wasn't that long ago. But it's pretty rare. Someone comes
2:11.4	along with that kind of maturity, understanding of the music, something to say, and the ability to say it, you know, to perform
2:20.2	in front of an audience at the level that he has. There's always been a few, but it's rare.
2:24.6	Yeah, Tony Williams comes to mind.
2:26.2	Yeah.
2:26.5	You know, someone who's playing with Miles when he was 17, 18 years old?
2:29.5	16.
2:30.0	16 years old. Unbelievable. Yeah. Yeah.
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