How this ‘Gen Z Mozart’ almost dismissed Herbie Hancock’s email as a joke

Conceptly, Jacob Collier suspected that one of his friends was joking.

In 2013, Collier uploaded a video to Youtube at the age of 19 at the age of 19: a cover of Stevie Wonder’s Don’t worry about somethingHe recorded his family in London. Within a few days, more than 100,000 viewing has noted, so it can be purchased online.

Collier – Who will start the first arena Australian tour In December – he received an e -mail that tells him that Herbie Hancock had purchased five records. Then came a message claiming that the jazz legend came from him: “Wow, Jacob! Your belongings are amazing. Please continue to expand in your life and music. I believe that craft can be about melody, rhythm, harmony, notes, etc., but about music life.

“My first instinct, ‘Which one of my wool is trying to pull over my eyes?’ ‘He says, “This is crazy!’ I thought. But it was really Herbie. “

This was followed by another Pinch-me moment in which Quinty Jones, one of the world’s most admired music producers in the world.

Jones’ production company President Adam Fell, “Quiny lost his mind,” he remembered. “He said, ‘I don’t care what you’re doing right now, I don’t care how busy you are – find this child’.”

Jones was taken with Collier’s version. Don’t worry about something In addition to Wonder’s original record, he will play who meets. “It didn’t matter if Paul McCartney or Queen Rania, BB said the BBC to the BBC. “Quincy shows them this video and ‘I have never seen anything like this!?’ ‘

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Famously, when they tried to sign Jones Collier, the young singer and mother, and their mother, and Jones, suggested that they know each other as friends.

“When I was a child, I created a lot of music in the lonely cocoon of my family’s music room, Yellow Collier, who has a flamboyant community of the yellow Crocs, red pants and multi -colored parachute jackets. “At that time I didn’t have a team; I was just me and my mother, and I wasn’t sure how to feel with other people. Quinty and I built our work relationship on a friendship and human connection.”

When we meet, the 30 -year -old Collier comes from taking the stage as a title action at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. He seems to be at the beginning of his 20s, but he has vocabulary and perfect behavior of a middle -aged British gentleman.

Throughout the past years, Hundreds of millions of streams have been working in Tiktok, Youtube and Spotify. From Joni Mitchell and Coldplay to Alicia Keys, David Crosby and Rapper Stormzy, he collaborated with everyone. And he’s already won the seven grams of award and made him the only British artist who demanded at least one grammy for each of his first five studio albums. It is not surprising that critics labelled as “genius”, “jazz messiah” and “gen z mozart ..

‘Whatever he does, he blows my mind.’

Quincy Jones in Jacob Collier

“He’s a lot of demand,” said Chris Martin from Coldplay, a friend of the Collier family. “We all knew, ‘Oh, this man can make us better.” Jones, who died last year, declared, “Whatever he does, he flys my mind.” Film composer Hans Zimmer went so far as to rank Collier’s harmonic talents on his own. “I thought I was good with the harmony,” he said, “But he was on my belongings – and it passed.”

But what makes Collier’s music so special?

As Jones once explained, Western Music used the same 12 notes of the chromatic scale for several hundred years. However, Collier likes to work in the areas with a series of “micro note” and “quarter ton” that can distinguish it with an incredible ear. He also plays dozens of instruments.

His cover Don’t worry about somethingIt is a good example made completely on its own. Only on this track, guitar, mandolin, double bass, keyboard, piano, Djembe drums, box drums, cow, egg roller and tambourine; Also, before bringing them together to create a beautiful -layer whole, some of whom are alone, some of them seem strange. (His Videos Use a frequently divided screen format to exhibit every aspect.)

“After spending a day at school, I would stay in the early morning hours, Coll says Collier. “I was doing things that I had never heard of before. It was a very exciting time; I felt that I built my own little cathedral from Matchsticks.”

As a child who started a walking, his mother, a famous violinist, chef and professor, noticed how to adapt to the vacuum cleaner’s buzzing. Paying the advice of his late father Derek (an old leader of a violinist and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra), he sang to his son since birth and encouraged his surroundings to explore the sounds around him.

“A car alarm go and say, ‘Oh, look at this! This is a big chord.

When Collier brings him Djesse World Tour In December, Australia (“Djesse” initials will be supported by local musician Nai Palm. As in most of his previous performances, he will play kitoraster and invite every member of the audience to participate.

“This is a very kind of show, or he explains. “Some structured elements, as well as some chaotic elements. Some acoustic moments and some dance, jazz, people, electronics and rock ‘n’ rol moments.

During the first Australian tour in 2018, Collier used a video cycle system and made a harmonizer to give a special one -man concert. “I was using all kinds of mystery at that time, but since then I have traded most of these tools for people who have benefited greatly for me, or he says.

“When I became a solo artist, I fell in love with the idea that the audience became a group in the absence of group friends – and this is still an important part of the show because I love that common feeling.”

He does not hesitate when he is asked to call the greatest musical hero.

“My mother is number one, frankly, or he says. “From everything I do as a musician – starting with these multi -screen videos, then he makes albums and travels all over the world – he always loaned his expertise and wisdom in a really good way. He even made the orchestra in my last album. Djesse Vol. 4. It was an incredible, full circle moment to take the DNA of what I learned as a child and to endure what I did now. “

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