{"id":2445555,"date":"2019-06-20T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=307941"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:00:00","slug":"jazz-aspen-snowmass-june-experience-jacob-collier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/jazz-aspen-snowmass-june-experience-jacob-collier\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience: Jacob Collier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jacob COllier will play two shows at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience on Friday.<\/strong>
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Jacob Collier has been compared to Mozart and been dubbed a genius by just about everyone who has seen him perform. The once-in-a-generation talent led Quincy Jones to take him under his wing and proclaim: \u201cI have never seen a talent like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

The North Londoner, 24, play two shows upstairs at the Aspen Art Museum today headlining the revamped Jazz Aspen Snowmass June Experience.<\/p>\n

Collier broke out as a teen YouTube star, making wildly inventive covers \u2014 his split-screen video take on Stevie Wonder\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Worry \u2019Bout a Thing\u201d<\/a> has garnered more than 3.5 million views \u2014 on which he plays several instruments and loops his vocals into intricate harmonies.<\/p>\n

His live shows were no less of a revelation, with Collier hopping from piano to vocals to electric and double bass to synthesizer, drums and percussion to mandolin, accordion, autoharp and back again. In this creative tornado, he builds one-man symphonies piece by piece (often combined with a live video projection behind him).<\/p>\n

In 2016, Collier released his first proper album, \u201cIn My Room,\u201d which became a global hit, went on to the top of the jazz charts and won him his first two Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

Jazz Aspen Snowmass founder Jim Horowitz first got wind of Collier in 2016 on a talent-scouting trip to New York. At Birdland one night, a festival producer encouraged Horowitz to check out what Collier was up to. Horowitz ended up staying up until nearly dawn watching Collier\u2019s YouTube videos and concert videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was so floored,\u201d Horowitz recalled. \u201cI sat back on my heels and I was like, \u2018Oh my god, I can\u2019t believe what I just saw.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

It reminded Horowitz of seeing a young Stevie Wonder in concert as a teenager, when Wonder effortlessly played several instruments along with piano.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis could be the second coming of Stevie Wonder,\u201d Horowitz said. \u201cHe seems to be limited only by his musical imagination.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horowitz then went on a mission to book Collier in Aspen, and landed the much-in-demand phenom for the season closer of the summer 2017 JAS Caf\u00e9 season.<\/p>\n

A prodigy and bedroom producer, Collier has used Pro Tools and YouTube to craft a genre all his own \u2014 a sort of one-man a capella group and jazz fusion orchestra. He\u2019s invented his own instruments when his imagination outstretched the existing tools. But his mastery of digital tools doesn\u2019t mean he can\u2019t hang with conventional concert musicians \u2014 he\u2019s also studied jazz piano at the Royal Academy of Music to hone his skills and, if he wanted to, could surely be wowing audiences with only analog instruments at his fingertips.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s young chronologically, but he\u2019s obviously an old soul,\u201d Horowitz said.<\/p>\n

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via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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