Piano - Joey Alexander (Indonesia) Saxophone - Gábor Bolla (Hungary) Bass - Mattias Svensson (Sweden) Drums - Morten Lund (Denmark) "Giant Steps" composed by John Coltrane The Standard Jazz Club Copenhagen, Denmark December 2014
Joey played close to this level by age 6. He's about 10 on this video. I've been around jazz and musicians my whole life. I've never seen or heard anyone so young as fully musically developed as joey. There isn't a teacher or enough lessons in history to allow someone to put it all together as this kid has done. He was imbued with something unexplainable and otherworldly from birth is the only explanation for such talent.
Someone please pour some water on this kid... He is smokin'!! In the midst of his solo, a long one, ala Coltrane, he slips in a little "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins... This kid is too much!!! This is REAL JAZZ, Dave Koz & Kenny G....
+James Griffin he threw in St Thomas, Epistrophy, Moment's Notice, a bird tune i can't remember the name of, Countdown in the intro but the amazing thing about this solo was the way he played on the outside upper extensions of the chords consistently. like at one point for about 3 choruses bars he altered every chord in the exact same way. his ears are more opened up than any player i've ever heard. I don't think even the best jazz players quite hear what he is hearing I've played and studied jazz my whole life and I know he's going a couple levels deeper than what i can break down. I can hear it but it is twisting my ear to do so. And it would take me another whole life time to be able to do it.
Joey is most certainly inhabited by an old soul, perhaps the reincarnation of Duke or Coltrane or Amadeus himself...lol. What do I know? Not much, just that he is dam good!
Just awesome. What else is there to say. Gabor is awesome too. Love his tenor sound. Unique but distinct. What a player this guy (Gabor). This Euro guy can play. Wow! Joey you're just too awesome. Can't wait to see you in LA when you come and play at The Broad. Baik Sekali!
Just incredible.. Beautiful piano intro.. No words to describe the sensation just a simple: they fuckin kill it, I can easily imagine Trane's little smile listening to this.. He'd be sooo proud
Theres no answer to Joey. Just incredible. Only 24k views and the pop crap gets mega comments. Theres no justice in the world. Gabors great too. Wonderful playing, almost brings me to tears!! Thanks guys.
So right man, and who are the 7 trump voters who thumbs downed this??? Must have been those damn humans because no other species on earth wouldn't appreciate this haha!
You can find a lot of classical piano prodigy who can play amazingly at 10 or less. But only one kid who is the biggest jazz piano prodigy who can play giant step perfectly at 6 yo. Classical music is about remembering but jazz is about improvisation that's why only joey can do what he does
Throughout his solo he kept using the first line of Au Privave as a lick then finally at 6:03 he quotes the melody! Such a genius. I saw him live in October 2015 and it was life changing, truly inspirational.
Coltrane would be proud!! This kid is SICK!!!!! (THAT'S GOOD BTW):) Sounded like 10 people in the audience with this much incredible music being performed, and then, one can hear Justin Bieber perform in front of 10 million people jumping up and down on the stage, playing sh** Topsy Turvey world we live in!!!
Any true musician knows that to compare 2 completely different pieces of music from different times and styles is not fair at all. While music may not require much skill it doesn’t lessen its value. I prefer this way more than Justin Bieber but to call his music shit isn’t really fair
I just looked up the tenor man and it seems he was a prodigy like Joey. The future of jazz is bright with these 2 cats leading the next generation of jazz!
day my day was spent on watching Joe's youtube, but it's not wasted time. I feel more beautiful jazz through Joey's fingers.. I really happy & enjoyful to hear jazz right now & for the future..
Je souhaite de tout coeur, que les 2 grands guitaristes de Jazz: JOE DIORIO et PAT MARTINO puissent enregistrer un Album avec ce jeune pianiste de jazz Indonésien Phénoménal , Prodigieux "Béni des DIEUX". Ce serait un évènement jazzistique de cette première moitié du XXIè siècle. Que mes voeux soient entendus, par les "Dieux indonésiens"!
Время летит быстро. Поражает способность Джоуи, когда концерт идёт первый раз, второй и последующий.,т. е. .способность воспроизводить музыкальную информацию сочинения при игре с ансамблем.
The hardest thing to do in music imho is to play in front of black musician/s (esp the old one) and make them giggle like kids and and / or make "dayum" face by your playing,... Joey certainly already on that level at such a young age, and surrounded by another great musicians like this, man it's unbelievable,...
And also can if you listen some of his other stuff like ask me now with Gabor Bolla you can see he plays like thelonius monk, on also on other tunes he plays monk. Is his favorite, John Coltrane billy strayhorn herbie Hancock, Horace silvers monk like I said his joeys favorite. He pays homage to the great jazz men of yesterday, today, and always. So joey is a young giant of today... He also plays like himself that is why he is so great.that u 4 listening Maria is my name.
I am just going to tell it like it is joey has a lot of African American in him,you can see it as well as hear it in his music, I know he's from Indonesia, but we are so quick to say like I saw in another comment,on the tablet, that someone typed, in had Jewish in him, that's all well and good but jazz came from the African American, people. And Joey studies these great jazz men, that is why he is a young giant of today.understand me plainly his creator made him like that and you cannot negate his mom and dad because his dad played jazz albums around him when he was a toddler.
His family is Christian, maybe Baptist, he grew up on Gospel music as well as his Dad's jazz record collection, which must have been excellent. His parents must be wonderful folks, as his head seems really screwed on straight. A gentle soul. We are all very lucky to have him on the planet and to be here when he's here. Coltrane, Monk would be proud.
Hannible Tobe Indonesian had their DNA from African mixed with East Asian. The western indonesian people look like south east asian (thai, malay, philipines), while eastern indonesian (papua) look like african (and very musical), gradualy mixed in the middle. Joey mother is from western indonesian (java, mix with ashkenazy jew), his father is from eastern.
Completely different from the studio version; I think I like this better. I wish there'd be an effort to make (and release) good-quality recordings of all of Joey's performances. He is so great live...and of course it's great to have the great sax here given the provenance of the tune! All these recordings from The Standard are outstanding quality.
Phénoménale, Prodigieux que ce jeune pianiste de Jazz qu'est "JOEY ALEXANDER." Il y a ceux qui sont nés comme de "gens normaux" et ceux qui sont nés comme"GENIE". JOEY ALEXANDER est comme "Pelé" au Football. Simple àcomprendre et admettre , voilà tout ! GIANT STEPS est une des compositions de John Coltrane, très complexe pour le "CHORUS". Il faut être un improvisateur chevronné pour s'y frotter. Les jazzmen le savent !
Great jazz but I want you guys to know that they are both not sticking strictly to the form of the song, which is fine! That's a tough tune, John Coltrane practiced it for a year straight before recording it.
They pretty much are sticking to the form of the original. How are they departing in your opinion? Because there is an extended cadenza? Jazz forms by nature are very loose compared to other forms of music and the basic form is generally a melody which is expected to be ornamented, inverted and developed etc. alongside a set of chord changes which are expected to be embellished, substituted or even completely reharmonised. The harmony in this sticks very closely to the original form and above and beyond that, the soloist states the head quite clearly and even improvises using a lot of coltrane pattern lines as in the original.
Well put! haha! it's a miracle is what it is and when my mom told me there's a kid from indonesia who plays giant steps like an old pro I thought she was going senile. Then i listened. Tears came to my eyes. It was the first miracle i'd ever seen.
any players try to hold their self bcoz they have no more moves to give, but joey just jump into the traffic between the craziest drum and bass fights, and nailed it.. that was insane..
@@davidscott1052 Advanced artists don't give a-f whether you praise them or not so I'll not bother to discuss your negative reply. I have by the way recorded this tune many times. These guys overplay this tune in my view, but to be forward about why I say so, Coltrane's original solo on this tune more or less sticks to a pre-written script throughout and there's a reason for that. He gives an elegant, concise, pruned solo. His improvisation as such is almost none. G-S is a composition that is very limiting harmonically due to the quick pace. Over the years I have noticed that many artists who record it cannot avoid fluffing it up with filler, chromaticism and other superficialities. That's why I do not pour praise on this recording. Good playing maybe, but virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity is not desirable.
@@jazzlives not harmonically complicated 2 5 1 s throughout and you don't have to play it fast ...I play it as a bossa...did so yesterday night...works really well....I understand your comment ...though I think you will be in a very small minority
