J. Period via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: J. Period
- City: Brooklyn, NY
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Hailed as a “music guru” by Rolling Stone and called "the most creative mixtape producer of all-time” by music icon Questlove, J.PERIOD is a musical storyteller whose work connects cultures, eras and styles.
J.PERIOD's resume boasts collaborations with GRAMMY® winners The Roots, Nas, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Common, Mary J. Blige, John Legend and Pulitzer Prize-winning Playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda on the Billboard #1 album, The Hamilton Mixtape.
His extensive roster of collaborators, combined with a visionary approach to musical storytelling, has earned comparisons to both DJ Khaled and Ken Burns. In 2018, J.PERIOD also earned a prestigious appointment to the inaugural Kennedy Center Hip Hop Culture Council. “Make no mistake,” says DJ Booth, “as to the power of J.PERIOD’s impact and influence on hip hop culture."
As a producer and composer, J.PERIOD's work has been featured in EMMY®-winning films (The Doctor), flagship series (America Divided, NBA Inside Stuff), and blockbuster film trailers (Universal Pictures' American Gangster, Fox Searchlight's Street Kings, Paramount Pictures' Terminator: Gynesis).
As Music Supervisor for the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center, J.PERIOD's custom-curated soundtrack won rave reviews as the new standard for music in the NBA arena (ESPN). J.PERIOD also produced the Nets' opening theme song for their first two seasons in Brooklyn.
In 2018, J.PERIOD's groundbreaking performance series, The Live Mixtape (a star-studded Hip Hop mixtape recorded live onstage in one take, and now available on all streaming services) headlined at Sony Hall NYC, The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was featured at The Roots Picnic. Other notable performances include: Smithsonian NMAAHC, SXSW, and "Art of The Crossfade" at Ted Talks. J.PERIOD has also performed as Official Tour DJ for artists including Black Thought, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, and Q-Tip.
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: jperiodBK
- ▶ Instagram: jperiodbk
- ▶ Website: http://jperiod.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jperiodBK
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCMlW8PwRGclXHA1TFNFyD7A
- ▶ Articles: http://jperiod.com/press/mobi
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
J.PERIOD has played an integral part in reinventing how we musically entertain our fans. He has strong ties to Brooklyn and the diversity it represents. We are fortunate to have him as a part of our team.
- Brooklyn Nets
J.PERIOD mixtapes transcends just mixing records. It's how De La puts together an album... and puts meaning behind it. The way J.PERIOD does that is genius."
- De La Soul
Working with J.PERIOD guarantees a musical journey and an astounding educational experience. Listeners are sure to be transported to a space that makes you know how essential music is to the world.
- GRAMMY® U
J.PERIOD is a true master of his craft... He goes more in depth than any other DJ. You can trust that he’s going to bring the best out in you and see to it that you shine.
- Black Thought (The Roots)
J.Period puts such a high level of artistry and originality into every mixtape. Our work together was based on the Wake Up! album with The Roots, but became something new and classic in its own right.
- John Legend
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The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging from New Orleans to Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... through Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
