Jacob Collier performs Ancona in session at Maida Vale for BBC Introducing and Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2. Joined by Robin Mullarkey on bass and James Maddren on drums.
Honestly, after Djesse Vol IV, he should consider doing something like this for an album and tour maybe. Just something a little different. Maybe it's a little too traditional a setup for him. I don't know. But it's so cool to hear him in this kind of setting.
ye that´s what he also said, he does not want to be put in a box and "just" play jazz standards in a trio. My guess is, he will continue exploring different genres. I think it would be awesome to get some sort of Djesse V with oncemore more of an acoustic jazz layout with maybe some trio aspects
I greatly prefer that rehearsal video (warts and all). It just sounds so live. This version is too tame -- sounds like the audio was sent through a pillow.
Me three. Besides the edgier mix, warts and all has a mindbending tight/loose swing. Maybe the guys thought it was sloppy but I thought they totally pulled it off.
Oh man. Jacob is genius on his own, but to hear him playing with other such talented musicians, it brings me and I'm sure many others great joy. They can support him in such a way that it gives him creative space while keeping up with all the creativity that flows. They add their own suggestion which is taken and brought to new places, back again, and wherever. The synergy is absolutely amazing. Just incredible musicians. Thank you for bringing this to the world Jacob, Robin and James. Can't wait to hear what more collaborations Jacob does, and all the interesting places he goes and takes us to. Keep it up baby Love, Striker
Jacob's soaring musical intelligence is on display here. His joyfulness as a musician shines through this successful collaboration. Don't miss Mr Collier's sweet smile at the end. You'll find his happiness as a person can be infectious.
Fascinating tune, exquisitely done. Collier is such a master of so many kinds of musical expression. Feeling super grateful to get to be on the planet with him as he inspires so many smiles. Mind boggled again.
Olve Gravklev Yeah, 4 quarters where 5 should be, and then further dividing each of his new quarters into 6, to get that 16th note swing feel. However, an easier way to play/read this is to understand that playing 4 where 5 should be creates the fraction 4/5, and as such he is playing a tempo one fifths slower than the song, and then just playing within sextuplet divisions to create that 16th swing. In the case here, the song at this stage is quarter note = 125 and the drummer's tempo is at 100.
It is not divided into sextuplets though. He is still playing the same tempo and playing sixteenth notes, just while accentuating every 5th stroke. However, if you want to think of it as the drummer playing a slower tempo (in the ratio of 4/5), he would indeed be playing a different subdivision, but it would be quintuplets, not sextuplets. Sextuplets would be much more odd to listen to than this, since he is playing 1/5 slower than the others, not 1/6.
LOL! I must have listened to this at least 20 times over the course of the last 2 months and everytime I recommended it to a friend I said: Listen to ANACONDA by Jacob Collier! :D
Definitely jazz! Though very modern sounding, which I absolutely adore! Many people (like my friend) cannot accept as jazz because it has not got the typical swing drumming and feel.
I absolutely love this. But why is the sound so muddy? I previously heard the rehearsal video...and although this is more polished there is no top end. Sorry...love everything you do!
One hears "lots" of influences in his melodic structure, of course. Jacob claims to have been influenced much by the harmonic structure of the late Benjamin Britten. But, having brilliant musician parents (mother is a violinist at the Royal Academy) helps :-) Drummer James Maddren and basist, Robin Mullarkey, are brilliant! Tight yet "free" indeed.
Have you seen the YT video of the gig Rebello did at Ronnie Scott's with Tal Wilkenfeld on bass, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and a certain Jeff Beck on guitar, with guests Joss Stone, Imogen Heap and Eric Clapton? It's simply sublime. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are visible in some audience shots too.
OrganicPumpkinSeeds brings up a lot of good points, but i think the description makes the song even more intimidating to understand, and i try to translate jacob collier as best i can to avoid this (at least i try to when i can figure it out myself first) so here is my description: everything up to :10 is the 'head' as you would call it if you thought of yourself as a cool jazz musician. it is a sequence of 5 bars of 4/4, but all of the notes he plays are dotted eight notes, which is what organic pumpkin seeds explained in his comment. I think it is easier to think of it as a 4 over 3 polyrhythm. If the quarter note is the 3 in that ratio, a dotted eight note is the 4. It is also a length of 3 16th notes. Understanding this relationship is vital to understanding ancona. the 5 bars of 4 repeats two more times. you might notice that in the turn around to get back to the start of the head, the drummer plays with jacob on the dotted eighths, strongly emphasizing that feeling of 4 against 3. this relationship is what they use to segue into the next section of the song. The next few bars can be thought of as 21/16, except that isnt remotely countable. instead, it should be thought of as a metric modulation, where they take the 4 over 3 relationship and turn the dotted eight note, the 4, into the new quarter note. Now they are effectively in a new tempo, and each bar is a bar of 7 quarter notes (that used to be dotted eighths at the original tempo). There are four of these such bars at the new tempo, as much as it sounds like the bar is over at :39, it isnt. Then he plays a quick bar of 5/8 and a little lick of 7 16th notes that gives us a 7/16 bar, which brings us back into the head for a bar of 4/4 and a bar of 5/4. They transition back into the modulated tempo to play essentially a repeat of the earlier part: four 7/4 bars, the 5/8 bar and the 7/16, and then they add on 12 dotted quarters, or 3 bars of 4/4 modulated. This brings us into a pretty ambiguous section that can be deciphered if you look at the bass line he's playing. It appears to be 4 bars of 7/4, repeated twice, ending with the cool drum lick, and then 8 super stylish swept dotted eighth chords that bring us back to the top. here it is totally barebones: (4/4 x 5) x 3 modulate up: 7/4 x 4 original tempo: 5/8 + 7/16 4/4 + 5/4 modulate up: 7/4 x 4 original tempo: 5/8 + 7/16 modulate up: 4/4 x 3 (7/4 x 4) x 2 sort of two bars of 4/4 going back into the top.
wtwrush A very strong point about personal preference. Myself, I always prefer the 'scientific' solution, and very early on, I studied as such to make it the easiest to understand, but the beauty of music is that it can be thought of in different ways and still meet to the same point. With that said though, surely it is much, much easier for you to treat the section as 21/16, because you don't need to count the 16ths, as the pulse then becomes dotted 8ths. It is as if you are now counting 7/8, but accepting that each count is dotted as there are three 16ths to each count. This way, there needs to be no tempo change in between the two sections, as the 16th note speed remains the same.
OrganicPumpkinSeeds ahaha were saying the same thing, it's just much scarier to see something written as 21/16, if it can be counted as 7 dotted eighths. They are of course totally equivalent, it just feels like to someone reading the imaginary music it would be impossible to know what was meant by that if you didn't explain that a metric modulation was happening. You can call it a tempo change or just an extended change in pulse, or a metric modulation, but for me thinking of it as a modulation is far and away the easiest way to wrap my head around what's happening. I love how the whole song is one big blurred line between quarter notes and dotted eighths :)
Hey. Are the drummer and bassist chopped liver? I love to listen and watch Collier play; his amazing dexterity on the keyboard is nothing short of brilliant . But there are two other gifted musicians contributing significantly to this piece. Their efforts are shortchanged and essentially ignored by the camera persons and or / film editors to a degree that borders on disrespect, particularly when the bass was briefly soloing and the camera remained stubbornly fixed on the piano and Colliers expression. Enough with the Collier hyper- worshipping. Serve the music first people; I’d wager Collier would be the first to agree.
The music is amazing, love it, but the video sucks. Footage of All musicians at relevant points please! C'mon your the BBC for God's sake, not John or Dave on their smart phones.
almost. pretty much :) haha. "The Lick" is such a joke among musicians since that video came out. Sometimes I gotta bust out the lick at some gigs to the amusement of some and total unawareness of others.
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Yo, I want a "the Jacob Collier trio" album
Same tho! Originals and standards would be amazing!
Yes!
@@garretkaplan this
Everyone does.
Yeah but it would just be Jacob cubed, like his tiny desk....arguing with himself about rhythm and harmony
Honestly, after Djesse Vol IV, he should consider doing something like this for an album and tour maybe. Just something a little different. Maybe it's a little too traditional a setup for him. I don't know. But it's so cool to hear him in this kind of setting.
ye that´s what he also said, he does not want to be put in a box and "just" play jazz standards in a trio. My guess is, he will continue exploring different genres. I think it would be awesome to get some sort of Djesse V with oncemore more of an acoustic jazz layout with maybe some trio aspects
What’s the time signature of this tune?
Jacob Collier: Yes.
4/4, but crazy syncopated
Jacob Helbig In the video “Deciphering Jacob Collier part 2” it shows the time signature jumps from 4/4 to 5/4 to 21/16 to 18/16 multiple times
@@Mot-dh5sx and 15/16 at some point
what's amazing is the pulse feels relatively consistent despite the meter changes
21/16 at some point (like 7/4 but using 16ths as subdivisions)
yo I'm running out of Jacob Collier vids to watch...
I feel exactly the same
Gonzaskate77 I am officially deprived of new Jacob Collier vids LOL
We surely need his new album as soon as posible
Gonzaskate77 yess. Can't wait!
***** yeah LOL
Excellent version but.. I miss the phone ringing!
Marco Risolino And the Postman Pat lick he threw in!
+Marco Risolino totally right!
I greatly prefer that rehearsal video (warts and all). It just sounds so live. This version is too tame -- sounds like the audio was sent through a pillow.
Me three. Besides the edgier mix, warts and all has a mindbending tight/loose swing. Maybe the guys thought it was sloppy but I thought they totally pulled it off.
the rehearsal one had better loudness and was just a better mix.
Young people doing top class jazz..... Thanks God!
Oh man. Jacob is genius on his own, but to hear him playing with other such talented musicians, it brings me and I'm sure many others great joy. They can support him in such a way that it gives him creative space while keeping up with all the creativity that flows. They add their own suggestion which is taken and brought to new places, back again, and wherever. The synergy is absolutely amazing. Just incredible musicians. Thank you for bringing this to the world Jacob, Robin and James. Can't wait to hear what more collaborations Jacob does, and all the interesting places he goes and takes us to. Keep it up baby
Love, Striker
The past few years must have been a real blessing!
sharing you to every freaking person I know until they get it through their thick skulls that you are a legend my friend.
Haha. Have the same problem XD
James Maddren is a fantastic drummer I used to play with few years ago. Nice to see him with Jacob ! Great music !
Mullarkey is killing it for me!
excellent drummer !
Awesome! please credit the 2 great musicians with him in the description, shame to have to ask.
+Journeyman Band James Maddren (Drums) & Robin Mullarkey (Bass)
the bass is insane oh my god
it all make sense now...we need such amazing music
because the world around us
is changing in such a fast pace
Jacob's soaring musical intelligence is on display here. His joyfulness as a musician shines through this successful collaboration. Don't miss Mr Collier's sweet smile at the end. You'll find his happiness as a person can be infectious.
Fascinating tune, exquisitely done. Collier is such a master of so many kinds of musical expression. Feeling super grateful to get to be on the planet with him as he inspires so many smiles. Mind boggled again.
Blimey, next level musicianship of the highest order. Love the growling bass tone and swampy drums. Brilliant.
He‘s fascinating in his room. But going places and meeting other great musicians is just awesome 👏
world class rhythm section.
Jazz lives through jacob collier in the 21st century
4:53 Maddren goes absolutely mad and pulls out an amazing groove...
Show the bassist during the solo, ya dozy prats
@peter g i'd agreed if he would've reacted at any point.
They tried, but Rob had ascended during his solo, so they had to wait for him to come back down to earth.
wow it's almost as if JC was a self centered douche right
it's videos like this that need a different button than the plain likes and dislikes.
wheres the BEST VIDEO IVE SEEN ALL YEAR!-button?!
Vous êtes exceptionnel......un tel régal à chaque écoute !!!! J'adoooorrrrrreee.........
Jacob is great, obviously, but this is jazz and it's a trio performance. Who are the other 2 guys?
Matt Perko James Maddren and Robin Mullarkey
It's in the description.
@@BassByTheBay Yep, but it should've been in the title really. :-(
BassByTheBay it wasn’t 4 years ago, good thing they credited them in the description afterwards
Brilliant !! Jacob Collier you are such a joy to listen to.
That opening groove and theme return is one of those that has me begging for a full track. Absolutely obsessed with it can't lie
Brilliant trio.
This is one of the musical performances ever
4:51 holy shit that rhythm change felt so good! Had to rewind a couple of times. He is playing 4 over 5.
Olve Gravklev
Yeah, 4 quarters where 5 should be, and then further dividing each of his new quarters into 6, to get that 16th note swing feel.
However, an easier way to play/read this is to understand that playing 4 where 5 should be creates the fraction 4/5, and as such he is playing a tempo one fifths slower than the song, and then just playing within sextuplet divisions to create that 16th swing. In the case here, the song at this stage is quarter note = 125 and the drummer's tempo is at 100.
It is not divided into sextuplets though. He is still playing the same tempo and playing sixteenth notes, just while accentuating every 5th stroke. However, if you want to think of it as the drummer playing a slower tempo (in the ratio of 4/5), he would indeed be playing a different subdivision, but it would be quintuplets, not sextuplets. Sextuplets would be much more odd to listen to than this, since he is playing 1/5 slower than the others, not 1/6.
Olve Gravklev Yep, absolutely right, I don't know why I said 6, tired I guess.
The content smile at the end says everything.
What a monster of a bass player...
2:04 HE DID THE LICK
what's the lick?
oooohh sheeeeee!
youtube "the lick" and you'll see
MY LORD IT'S TRUEEE
no he dint
You seem to bring music back to everyone thank you for being so generous jacob
I absolutely LOVE this!!!!!!!!!!
Warning, while trying to dance to this, I dislocated my hip. If you must dance, please proceed with caution!
lolirl
read as "Anaconda" and felt conflicted
LOL! I must have listened to this at least 20 times over the course of the last 2 months and everytime I recommended it to a friend I said: Listen to ANACONDA by Jacob Collier! :D
*Jacob Collier Has Left Chat*
😀
This is absolutely the best thing I ever heard
you are a highly gifted musician.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!! The old innocent version was also brilliant.. :) :) :)
its totally different when a perfect pitch guy JAZZed!,,,its pure geniuz
This is joyous
21 : 16 time signature
An album with this setup would be great!
Fantastic!
niceeee im strolling to this
a genius!
2:04 "the lick"
Not the lick
I can not comprehend how and/or why 20 people disliked this.
also 4:39 sounds like a Windows XP error sound
no postman pat this time
not sure if this is fusion, or just something next level
Listen to Jazzkantine: „It is Jazz“. 😉
Definitely jazz! Though very modern sounding, which I absolutely adore! Many people (like my friend) cannot accept as jazz because it has not got the typical swing drumming and feel.
You could at least give ALL musicians cred, even if this is an introduction of Jacob! This just hurts my musicheart...
from 1:04 starts kind of a his "The Road Not Taken"_y thing or did I freak out?
con esta musica la vida vale
Someone ring June Lee
I absolutely love this. But why is the sound so muddy? I previously heard the rehearsal video...and although this is more polished there is no top end. Sorry...love everything you do!
Hey Jacob, i wonder if Lyle Mays has been a big influence on your piano playing?
One hears "lots" of influences in his melodic structure, of course. Jacob claims to have been influenced much by the harmonic structure of the late Benjamin Britten. But, having brilliant musician parents (mother is a violinist at the Royal Academy) helps :-) Drummer James Maddren and basist, Robin Mullarkey, are brilliant! Tight yet "free" indeed.
The lick between @2:04-2:06 Lol
Josh C it's almost as if... it's a lick
❤❤❤❤❤only a live version?
I'd love to have some chart of this...
Full level
4.51- 5.13...
Is this an original song? Can't seem to find another version of this anywhere!
eobrandon same problem for me, I haven't heard the original if there is one
Yes Jacob Collier wrote this
2:05 LICCCCCY
1:26 "hey dirty loops check this out"
No waaaay
As the colors of this video, this song sounds orange for me.
wonderful stuff. must be heavily influenced by Jason Rebello. This guy is going to dominate.
Have you seen the YT video of the gig Rebello did at Ronnie Scott's with Tal Wilkenfeld on bass, Vinnie Colaiuta on drums and a certain Jeff Beck on guitar, with guests Joss Stone, Imogen Heap and Eric Clapton? It's simply sublime. Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are visible in some audience shots too.
+Richard Harrold Thanks man. Yes, I have seen it. wonderful gig, wonderful player.
Richard Harrold do you have a link to that video you mention? Thanks a lot!
And he is dominating now
I like the name of the song lol.
You know that it is a city in Italy? The biggest of the Marche region.
Can anyone put a metric on the first 30sec ? ...
Neil Schmitt
Go to June Lee's video 'Deciphering Jacob Collier 2'. He covers this in that video.
Neil Schmitt yeah refer to June's video but the first part can be thought of entirely in 4-4 actually. The rest of it not so much...
OrganicPumpkinSeeds brings up a lot of good points, but i think the description makes the song even more intimidating to understand, and i try to translate jacob collier as best i can to avoid this (at least i try to when i can figure it out myself first) so here is my description:
everything up to :10 is the 'head' as you would call it if you thought of yourself as a cool jazz musician. it is a sequence of 5 bars of 4/4, but all of the notes he plays are dotted eight notes, which is what organic pumpkin seeds explained in his comment. I think it is easier to think of it as a 4 over 3 polyrhythm. If the quarter note is the 3 in that ratio, a dotted eight note is the 4. It is also a length of 3 16th notes. Understanding this relationship is vital to understanding ancona.
the 5 bars of 4 repeats two more times. you might notice that in the turn around to get back to the start of the head, the drummer plays with jacob on the dotted eighths, strongly emphasizing that feeling of 4 against 3. this relationship is what they use to segue into the next section of the song.
The next few bars can be thought of as 21/16, except that isnt remotely countable. instead, it should be thought of as a metric modulation, where they take the 4 over 3 relationship and turn the dotted eight note, the 4, into the new quarter note. Now they are effectively in a new tempo, and each bar is a bar of 7 quarter notes (that used to be dotted eighths at the original tempo). There are four of these such bars at the new tempo, as much as it sounds like the bar is over at :39, it isnt. Then he plays a quick bar of 5/8 and a little lick of 7 16th notes that gives us a 7/16 bar, which brings us back into the head for a bar of 4/4 and a bar of 5/4.
They transition back into the modulated tempo to play essentially a repeat of the earlier part: four 7/4 bars, the 5/8 bar and the 7/16, and then they add on 12 dotted quarters, or 3 bars of 4/4 modulated. This brings us into a pretty ambiguous section that can be deciphered if you look at the bass line he's playing. It appears to be 4 bars of 7/4, repeated twice, ending with the cool drum lick, and then 8 super stylish swept dotted eighth chords that bring us back to the top. here it is totally barebones:
(4/4 x 5) x 3
modulate up:
7/4 x 4
original tempo:
5/8 + 7/16
4/4 + 5/4
modulate up:
7/4 x 4
original tempo:
5/8 + 7/16
modulate up:
4/4 x 3
(7/4 x 4) x 2
sort of two bars of 4/4 going back into the top.
wtwrush
A very strong point about personal preference. Myself, I always prefer the 'scientific' solution, and very early on, I studied as such to make it the easiest to understand, but the beauty of music is that it can be thought of in different ways and still meet to the same point.
With that said though, surely it is much, much easier for you to treat the section as 21/16, because you don't need to count the 16ths, as the pulse then becomes dotted 8ths. It is as if you are now counting 7/8, but accepting that each count is dotted as there are three 16ths to each count. This way, there needs to be no tempo change in between the two sections, as the 16th note speed remains the same.
OrganicPumpkinSeeds ahaha were saying the same thing, it's just much scarier to see something written as 21/16, if it can be counted as 7 dotted eighths. They are of course totally equivalent, it just feels like to someone reading the imaginary music it would be impossible to know what was meant by that if you didn't explain that a metric modulation was happening. You can call it a tempo change or just an extended change in pulse, or a metric modulation, but for me thinking of it as a modulation is far and away the easiest way to wrap my head around what's happening. I love how the whole song is one big blurred line between quarter notes and dotted eighths :)
Is this Jacob’s song? So sick
The lick at 1:36
2:05 lick check
the lick @ 2:05
Oh shit he did the lick at 2:04
music score musescore.com/user/6201871/scores/4998794
Where is the ringing phone :p ..
2:05 THE LICC
5:25 the audio's not even close to representative of what's occuring on screen. someone care to explain?
edit bad
GIMMEE THE TRANSCRIPTION !!!!
There's a transcription of the rehearsal version of Ancona now.
i just love him so much.
does sb know how old he is btw?
+miss silver I guess he has 21
🤯
Could somebody please explain what's happening with the time signature(s) in this?
It’s mostly 4/4 but it switches to 21/16 at some parts. It even goes to 18/16 a few times. The 21/16 is thought of as triplified 7/4.
Who composed this piece?
2:04
Is this an original arrangement by jacob or can i find it elsewhere? I was looking on spotify and I couldn't find it anywhere
It's a piece that Jacob composed with two high school buddies. If I'm not mistaken, he wrote this while he was still in high school
@Dennisvdt Was there an interview where I can read about this??
I thought it was a cover of dirty loops - Hit me for a second xD
2:05 The Lick!
Hey. Are the drummer and bassist chopped liver? I love to listen and watch Collier play; his amazing dexterity on the keyboard is nothing short of brilliant . But there are two other gifted musicians contributing significantly to this piece. Their efforts are shortchanged and essentially ignored by the camera persons and or / film editors to a degree that borders on disrespect, particularly when the bass was briefly soloing and the camera remained stubbornly fixed on the piano and Colliers expression. Enough with the Collier hyper- worshipping. Serve the music first people; I’d wager Collier would be the first to agree.
I was hoping they'd just misspelled Anaconda. Still nice, though
Trollface PC 132 There is an Italian city called Ancona
The music is amazing, love it, but the video sucks. Footage of All musicians at relevant points please! C'mon your the BBC for God's sake, not John or Dave on their smart phones.
This gets a hundred hits a day. What's the matter...
whose song is this?
Jacob Collier
2:03 - 2:06 The Lick!
who wrote this?
Jacob collier
does lyle mays knows this talent????
Where is 1:36 from?
man, the camera is just on Jacob!... wtf?... sad
Sure the boy likes Hiromi :)
And I guarantee you, Hiromi loves the boy...
2:04 .... is that "The Lick", by any chance? ;)
almost. pretty much :) haha. "The Lick" is such a joke among musicians since that video came out. Sometimes I gotta bust out the lick at some gigs to the amusement of some and total unawareness of others.
Alex Gordeev what did I miss? Fill me in :D
sounds alright i guess.