Jazz in the digital age of music doesn’t spawn a lot of phenomenon’s, but 22-year-old Jacob Collier has been dubbed a “phenomenon” by NPR. It’s an apt description when you’ve amassed almost nine ...
The jazz scene is as susceptible to the beguiling lure of youth as any other corner of the music world, but jazz wunderkinds usually boast far more than a pretty face. In the case of Jacob Collier, ...
In 2013, after having posted a series of videos recorded in his family home in North London of himself singing a cappella arrangements of classic--yet sometimes obscure--songs on YouTube, a critical ...
English composer, singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier first gained attention on YouTube in 2012, and since then he's signed to Quincy Jones' record label, won two Grammys and ...
In a stuffy studio at MIT’s Media Lab, Jacob Collier and Ben Bloomberg are squeezed in front of a small desk flanked by big speakers. Bloomberg, a sound designer, is helping the musician prepare for ...
SHAPIRO: Jacob Collier is finding the answer to that question. He burst onto the scene as a gifted teenager with YouTube videos where he played more than a dozen instruments and recorded all the ...