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Heard that on Gilles P yesterday, sounded stunning. Have pre ordered the CD via Juno (and the Kenny Dorham) to avoid the usual disappointment with new vinyl pressings. -
I don't pay attention to :critics" anymore, but I keep hearing about them anyway, mostly thru advertisements for records or gigs. That's definitely "hype". And I mean, I just don't care. Their world is not my world, and I'm sure that we're both ok with that. But - I think my vision of the world heading towards total real hell with increasingly alarming acceleration is more "real" than theirs' of nirvanic wonder and awe. Now, for my granddaughter's sake I hope and pray that they're right. But as they say, hope is not a strategy,
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Joey Alexander is big on YouTube, along with others, like Hiromi Uehara. That's what that community likes. You could hardly call either of them overhyped, given that they're not really mentioned by critics, but something about them has caught the eye of the Reddit community. To add to @JSngry's earlier point, there was also a larger pool of talent that was connected directly to the previous hard bop era pool of talent in historical terms, and they had a larger commercial audience. Musicians like Alexander are just kids who do well at music at school and then get to record. There aren't many of them and they're selected to please teacher, not other musicians or the buying public (commercially this stuff is a non-event in 2025). It isn't the same thing as having a natural well of hundreds of talented players from regional towns already semi-developed, and used to playing for audiences ranging from university jazz clubs, old ladies in churches, to kids hanging around jukeboxes. -
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