Please welcome to Your world, Motéma's recording artist, and my Little Big (or my Big Little) friend, the most amazing, 12 years old Indonesian jazz piano prodigy, now residing in the world's jazz capital, New York City - JOEY ALEXANDER.
Joey has his debut album "My Favorite Things" featuring Larry Grenadier (Stan Getz, Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny), Ulysses Owens Jr. (Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride), Russell Hall (bass), Sammy Miller (drums) and Alphonso Horne (trumpet). Official worldwide release date; May 12, 2015.
If You haven't heard his name by now, please memorize this name: JOEY ALEXANDER. Joey is one of today's most impressive musicians I am aware of.And again, he is only 12 years old (in June), and wow! I feel very honored to know Joey, to be friend with his great parents Danny and Fara, and it was an immense privilege for being able to organe Joey's first ever full performances in the USA, at the Paul Robeson Center For The Arts in Pricneton, NJ on May 4 and at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn, New York City on May 7 of 2014.
If the word “genius” still means anything, it applies to this prodigy.” "(Joey) plays with breathtaking precocity and mastery of several decades of piano style." — DownBeat Magazine
“Technically fluent and harmonically astute.” — The New York Times
“Magnificent not only for the child’s virtuosity - plenty of prodigies have outsized chops - but for the maturity and perception he brought.” — Jazz Time
"Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock set Joey Alexander on a path to make some serious waves here in the U.S." — The JazzLine
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