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Joey Alexander - Jazz pianist
Young piano player Joey Alexander has an old soul's gift for jazz.

Why you should listen

A native of Bali, Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano by listening to classic jazz albums his father shared with him. Alexander’s father recognized his son’s ear for jazz, and soon he was sitting in on jam sessions with senior musicians. And a (very) few years later, he's playing for worldwide audiences from Jakarta to Copenhagen to Washington, DC.

Influenced by Monk, Coltrane and his mutual fan, Herbie Hancock, Alexander's style is "technically fluent and harmonically astute," says the New York Times, and marked by large-canvas musical ideas -- as seen in a legendary rehearsal-room take on "Giant Steps" in which the shifting chords and dizzy runs fly out from his tiny fingers. His new record, My Favorite Things, was released in 2015.

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Joey Alexander: An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz

Joey Alexander: ၁၁နှစ်သား ပါရမီရှင်လေး ခေတ်ဟောင်းဂျပ်ဇ်ဂီတ ဖျော်ဖြေတင်ဆက်ခြင်း။

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သူ့အဖေရဲ့ ခေတ်ဟောင်းဓာတ်ပြားတွေကို နားထောင်ရင်း ကြီးပြင်းလာခဲ့တဲ့ Joey Alexander ဟာ ဆယ်ကျော်သက်အရွယ် မတိုင်မီ ကလေးတစ်ယောက်ဆီကနေ ကြားရဖို့ဆိုတာ သင်ဘယ်လိုမှ မျှော်မှန်းမရနိုင်စကောင်းတဲ့ စူးရှတဲ့ ခေတ်ပေါ် ဂျပ်ဇ်ဂီတ စန္ဒရားလက်သံ အမျိုးအစားတစ်ခုကို တီးခတ်ပါတယ်။ ၁၁နှစ်သားလေးဟာ သူ့ရဲ့ Thelonious Monk ဂန္ဓဝင်ရဲ့ အရမ်း ထူးခြားတဲ့ဖျော်ဖြေမှုနဲ့ TED ပရိတ်သတ်ကို နှစ်သိမ့်ကျေနပ်စေတာကို ကိုနားဆင်ကြည့်လိုက်ပါ။
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joey Alexander - Jazz pianist
Young piano player Joey Alexander has an old soul's gift for jazz.

Why you should listen

A native of Bali, Joey Alexander taught himself to play piano by listening to classic jazz albums his father shared with him. Alexander’s father recognized his son’s ear for jazz, and soon he was sitting in on jam sessions with senior musicians. And a (very) few years later, he's playing for worldwide audiences from Jakarta to Copenhagen to Washington, DC.

Influenced by Monk, Coltrane and his mutual fan, Herbie Hancock, Alexander's style is "technically fluent and harmonically astute," says the New York Times, and marked by large-canvas musical ideas -- as seen in a legendary rehearsal-room take on "Giant Steps" in which the shifting chords and dizzy runs fly out from his tiny fingers. His new record, My Favorite Things, was released in 2015.

More profile about the speaker
Joey Alexander | Speaker | TED.com