DOMi and JD BECK - the Tiny Desk Concert
DOMi and JD BECK - the Tiny Desk Concert
Bobby Carter | August 10, 2022 If you've heard a DOMi & JD BECK song or watched a performance online, expectations of catching brilliance when you witness the jazz duo in person are likely high. JD's drumsticks move faster than the brain can process. DOMi offers every appendage on her body to the ke...
Jazz badly needed some new life. I’m so happy to see these two completely reinvigorating a nearly dead genre.
Julian Lage too. We’re lucky to hear such inspired, confident, daring artists after 30 years of people doing their best impression of their grandparents.
Jazz badly needed some new life
I don't know if I agree with that, off the top of my head Makaya McCraven, Kamasi Washington, Zs, Terrace Martin, Louis Cole, Thundercat, Kendrick Lamar, Colin Stetson, and BBNG have all done interesting stuff with it in the last 10-20 years. Always room for more good musicians, tho.
Julian Lage
That's actually a new name for me, just picked a few of his songs at random and Boo's Blues was good and Omission was good and a surprising sound for a jazz song, so I'll have to look for more of his stuff for sure
I wouldn’t consider Kendrick Lamar jazz. R&B for sure.
I had never heard of any of those other musicians. Thanks for making a list that I can check out! :)
So, maybe I should rephrase and state that the problem isn’t jazz but rather how hard it is for us to discover new acts. Regardless, I haven’t heard anything that inspired me like the musicians I listed. Thanks for taking the time to show me some newish inspiring acts.
Julian’s work is definitely inspired by Ornette Coleman (not to mention how close his guitar sound and sensibilities are to his buddy Bill Frissel).
Here’s my personal favorite performance of all time. The intro is absolute catharsis for me. He has even progressed further from here but IMO nothing else in the musical world after the year 2000 really matches the nuance and playfulness of this one moment for me. Edit: I switched to an individuous link after a Reese’s ad interrupted my favorite part of the intro. 🤣
It's funny you mention Julian Lage as another great new jazz artist when his music is so different from Domi and JD Beck.
Yeah. It’s TOTALLY different. I just so happen to like both. I’ve been bored of jazz for a long time and Julian and DOMi and JD Beck excite me.
Before that, the only people I heard trying something new were Herbie Hancock or Allan Holdsworth. You certainly can’t say Wynton Marsalis was treading any new ground.