true

...... and then you open your eyes and pass out from shock

How could you watch this while your eyes closed?

thank you for expressing in appropriate musical terms what I am just feeling, not being a musician. Joey Alexander is really dizzy...

+Larry Pierce Amen, Larry. Joey is a gift from God to us. I am grateful.

+Larry Pierce You've said it all. Amen.

+Larry Pierce To me, God created Joey and gave him talent when He was bored with this world. Try also to watch Joey's interview when he always acknowledges his talent as a blessing from The Lord.

+Larry Pierce thankx to GOD to create such a talent

one world one love foock da haters

Totally true

I'm

agreed ... exactly what I did ... 💖

i listen almost all his play on youtube and all of it is amazing

LOL

+Orisonmarden He said his music comes from the heart not technique or anything else

Me myself didn't think he is a prodigy, he is genius that comes every 100 years

well;genius,sort of encapsulates prodigy. it's sort of included in the package.

brainsareus no you are wrong..go look at it paulcooijmans.com/psychology/genius_gifted_prodigy_savant.html

+Kritdikorn Wongswangpanich I'm so glad you commented about Karise Eden. I never heard of her so I looked her up on KZfaq, clicked on her audition, and I nearly threw my computer across the room. I almost lost it and had to get up and walk it off!

+Kritdikorn Wongswangpanich Thank you for showing me other GREAT talents!

+Kritdikorn Wongswangpanich Wow!! is all I can say about this little guy....speaking of prodigies you must check out Alma Deutscher, classical composer, piano, violin...astounding!!

+Kritdikorn Wongswangpanich Jazz Prodigy......Thank God. Rarely seen in this world.....

He is not a prodigy, he is genius.

Just a reminder that nothing can make an idiot happy. So forget about it and enjoy the music. Love this guy.

Yes,...I agree wth you...👏👏👏👏👏💖🙏👍👌😍🎼🎹🎹🎵🎵🎵🎹🎹🎹

That's what jazz is about. You can play the same tune and chords, but each iteration will come out different.

I think you’re right. It’s so hard to explain musicality like this! His syncopation is innate… and it will continue to develop as he mature.. he’s light years ahead accomplished musicians!

@@oliviaedralin1436 I wrote that 4 years ago apparently. I just watched it again. I marvel at his skill even though I don't pretend to understand or even like the "music." I'd love to hear what innovation he could bring to something more "middle-of-the-road." I like tunes I can sing or at least hum.

ten-year-old

Absolutely agree with you, music, art has no nationality, he playing the language of the world

Exactly!! 😍

Jazz is timeless. This song "Round Midnight" is a 1944 composition by pianist Thelonious Monk.

Why wouldn’t they? This is extraordinary.

Why not?! A unique experience is, by definition, a unique experience. Those who do not listen and learn from history are doomed never to improve themselves;, and history extends from yesterday back to the dawn of time. There - a few relevant clichés to go on with...

Nah, its 2020 already

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+Straight No Chaser same here Man.....I have seen a lot of great jazz musicians...but at this age....Good God !!! ( I also said to my self..Thank God )

yeah it not piss

monk around midnight

The future of jazz is secure...

IT^S JOEY ALEXANDER !!!!! Terima kasih Joey...

+morgaffi you just say WOW,,,

what about if put togehter great talent and practice enough - what you get!?

@@elmyr4art not this level. Usualy jazz musician need decades to reach this level.

@@flyingspaghetti369 Even if I totally agree both of your lines I like to try find out my basic idea. At first Joey's playing wake up feeling like "tacit knowledge" - no word to explain but a stupendous flow of ideas and feelings full universe of mind. His sense of rythm and harmony is something man can't practice ie one have it or not. On the other hand Joey's smooth technical implementation is something he has practiced - well, for a couple of years. That seeming ease is part of the talent, that is part he has learned to play, technical point of view, in such a short time.

@@elmyr4art the amazing thing about Joey it's not the technicality, but his maturity. And he said that he played his ipad more than his piano.

@@flyingspaghetti369 So, Joey born to play perfectly from his first touch on piano. I humbly bow down and retreat back to the ground

Gary Branan wow...wonderful comment

Gary Branan so true..

+Penelope Donado unknown man..unknown..Agree... His playing is very very mature, soulful, people with their eyes closed would think it's Herbie hancock playing

+Straight No Chaser I thought the same thing. It reminds me to Herbie Hancock. Especially his expression

Joey is a wonder. This is not from this world. But my favourite composer in the classical sector, Erich Wolfgang Korngold(1897-1957) is -in my humble opinion- his equivalent. He was a complete composer and pianist at the age of 9 - 11 years. And he was not pushed by his parents. His father was the then most known music critic in Vienna and feared that exactly this would be said. So he sent copies of his sons works to other critics asking them about the quality but did not tell them it was his sons work. I want to point out that it was not possible in his time without- more or less- records and such things to have the knowledge he had at age 11 only by listening to records when he wrote this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNaIpNt1p5nJe30.html Not bad for an 11 year old boy, or? And he also was a master pianist at this age. He truly wrote works in the- then- most modern idiom and had his very own style from the very beginning. For me not Mozart but Korngold was the most astonishing prodigy of all times. Until now. Now the most astonishing prodigies for me are Korngold AND Joey Alexander. Why? There were a lot of prodigies around at each time. But to be able to play fast or to immitate others is not the whole thing. Korngold had and Joey today has such an understanding and a most deeply feeling about music one only would be able to find in old souls. Their maturity and deep understanding at age 11 sets them apart from other prodigies which "only" immitate or compose in an older style. Korngold at 11 was absolutely up to date in his musical language as is Joey in his playing today. I wish Joey a great career and a fullfilled life.

agreed

The classical piano teacher was mad because Joey always "decorated" the classical music. 😁 Joey didn't want to play whats in the paper, he's want to play whats in his head.

@@flyingspaghetti369 he wants to be free. And jazz gives him that freedom, not classical