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Wednesday, 12 June 2013

9 year old won the Indonesian jazz festival in Odessa



At the end of the first International Festival of jazz improvisation in Odessa won the 9-year-old Joey Power (Joey Alexander Sila) from Indonesia. He received the Grand Prix competition.

Boy playing only three years. For the first time his father bought him a mini-keyboard when Joey was 6 years old. When he first started playing on her musical phrase of "Well you needn't" (Thelonious Monk jazz piece).
But since 9-year-old jazz musician has performed and collaborated with leading Indonesian musicians and some European artists, among them - pianist and composer Indra Lesmana, trombonist Benny Likumahua, jazz pianist Idang Rasjidi and others.