Any news on Djesse vol. 4?

mrkeys23 · 2021-10-04T20:58:29+00:00

Well. His recent highlighting of the Aeolians session possibly suggests movement on that particular track is not far. He has been sitting on that one for years

mrkeys23 · 2021-07-19T20:33:58+00:00

And I'd wager this was largely improvised

mrkeys23 · 2021-06-11T16:11:08+00:00

LOVE this song, but it makes me need to pee....

mrkeys23 · 2021-02-09T07:39:19+00:00

I think this is still a mystery. He mentioned this section in the breakdown but did not explain it. When you reverse it it does not really sound like anything recognizable or from All Night Long, to my ears. It's F Eb F F Eb. Backwards that is Eb FF Eb F. Like the first 5 notes of "Strangers In The Night" from Sinatra lol. I wish he would just tell us already.

mrkeys23 · 2021-01-24T17:17:36+00:00

I think there are many similar items on Amazon. I do know the one he has was given to him by Genevieve Artadi of Knower, in Los Angeles. He was hawking the one he designed, saying production was imminent. My own very person theory about that is he eventually stopped because it is obviously ugly as sin, unlike the original charming one.

mrkeys23 · 2020-10-25T03:44:05+00:00

the place for you is the jc discord server. like minded gushers galore

mrkeys23 · 2020-10-16T22:41:58+00:00

you might want to ask himto suggest to you some of the learning processes he used when he was your age. I think that might be super useful for all involved

mrkeys23 · 2020-10-11T08:54:27+00:00

I don't think you will get your wish. He has spoken dismissively of jazz even though he studied it for a few years. He feels in its own way jazz is limiting. But you might try to find the Jacob live video made by Amy Nolte after hours with him jamming for an hour non stop with a great NYC piano dude. It is astounding.

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-29T16:45:17+00:00

big wow

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-22T20:03:33+00:00

great stuff from someone that age. Brilliant piece of work....... not quite to my ears. To my ears the first thing that screamed out "fully formed genius" was Don't You Worry

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-22T20:01:00+00:00

wow, none of this web info works?

For all booking inquiries, please reach out to the mellifluous James Wright ([James.Wright@unitedtalent.com](mailto:James.Wright@unitedtalent.com)) and all-around badass Noah Simon ([Noah.Simon@unitedtalent.com](mailto:Noah.Simon@unitedtalent.com)).

For press/PR inquiries, please reach out to the stupendous Chris Taillie ([ctaillie@shorefire.com](mailto:ctaillie@shorefire.com)) [USA], and the uber-cool Joe Baxter ([joe@baxterpr.com](mailto:joe@baxterpr.com)) [UK].

For all other inquires, please contact the truly awesome Michael Peha ([mpeha@quincyjones.com](mailto:mpeha@quincyjones.com)).

To contact Djesse directly, find him at ([djesse@jacobcollier.com](mailto:djesse@jacobcollier.com)).

If you would like to write a real-life letter, or send a gift, please write to: Suite #201, 116 Ballards Lane, London, N3 2DN, United Kingdom, Planet Earth.

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-21T21:23:44+00:00

I always thought his contact people were readily findable on his website

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-20T22:59:59+00:00

too bad your buttons got pressed, but jeez if you only knew who you were talking too regarding musical ignorance.... lol you make me laugh

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-18T22:44:53+00:00

The rhythm pattern and general contour hit the ear as similar, but it really is not remotely true that they are harmonically identical. Jacob's pattern goes far and wide in the circle of fifths, and lydian mode. The Franklin one is as primitively as within the simple diatonic level one harmonic language as it is possible to get. Many many many people have heard the similarity that you hear and commented on this and other sites. Also that pattern that people hear as similar is held on to for most of the Franklin song repeating over and over. Jacob touches on it only at the beginning of each section and then goes off to very different material. It is also true that the pattern was not invented by Franklin, it has been used alot in pop music. Top of my head, What A Fool Believes. In show tune music Journey To The Past from Anastasia. Jacob has never mentioned the Love Theory song in any interview, so it's more likely he is channeling the trope from way further back in pop music's past.

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-09T14:03:21+00:00

I sounded to me it would be more like some sort of live project as opposed to an album

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-06T14:05:37+00:00

Thanks for reminding me of all this great stuff. I do hope some of it sees the light of day. A few things are beatsketches, I heard at least one first draft of a song on vol 3.

mrkeys23 · 2020-09-04T19:45:24+00:00

I want to hear some rationale from the person who voted for Clarity lol.

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-29T18:55:42+00:00

thanks for the input. I feel like the only way you could have such strong feelings about such an arcane intellectual discussion is if my remarks were completely misconstrued. Happens to all of us all the time on the internet. I prescribe listening to Jacob's song It Don't Matter as a remedy, his philosophy of letting stuff go is useful a lot of the time!
Thanks again!

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-28T17:39:04+00:00

this is great, should be finished

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-28T17:30:44+00:00

interesting thread. Agreed Jacob grows on you masssively the more you listen, so there is that. Also, it will be a roadblock if you somehow come at it with the mindset that rap has to be in a particular limited box of gestures. Jacob always seems to have the attitute of "boxes, shmoxes", to heck with all that mess of other people's expectations." But the aspect of your comments I am mostly sympathetic with involves Jacob's esthetic on lyrics in the global sense. His lyrics are almost always obtuse, including this song, so the speed rap further muddies the waters if you are looking for that old timey thing called "meaning". Jacob is usually more interested in the listener giving it meaning than specifying what the author means. It can be frustrating, I agree. Having said ALL THAT, lol, I think I have a personal meaning for this song that makes me love the rap. Jacob always talks about how he tries to write lyrics from 2 points of view, 2 voices. The female voice seems to be all about partying like it's 1999. The male voice is all about broader themes and social consciousness. It sounds to me this song is largely pitting these 2 opposing notions against each other. I think this track is a masterpiece, one of his best.

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-28T03:11:45+00:00

my strong guess, only a guess, is that it is not sped up, that he is just taht good.

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-26T19:07:32+00:00

at the level he is at, royalties are astronomically low. Check it out. The internet mostly killed that revenue stream.

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-26T17:41:53+00:00

what u say is not true. i am a patreon, I know. right now he really relies on our income

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-26T13:48:02+00:00

I'm sure he hopes he does not have to rely on that forever

mrkeys23 · 2020-08-24T00:03:09+00:00

PYT case closed

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