This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Justin Kauflin matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Justin Kauflin.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Justin Kauflin (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Justin Kauflin's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Justin Kauflin
- City/Place: New York City
- Country: United States
Life & Work
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Bio:
Justin Kauflin is a prodigiously talented young pianist who has performed in the Blue Note, Village Vanguard, Jazz Standard, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, The Kitano, and The Kennedy Center, as well as up and down the east coast.
In 2011, he was one of twelve pianists selected worldwide to compete in the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition.
It was around this time that he was followed around by a film crew, appearing as an important part of a documentary on his mentor, jazz legend Clark Terry (Keep on Keepin' On).
Justin's eyesight was taken from him as a child, but his vision remains undiminished. He is a member of Quincy Jones' artist roster.
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
MANAGEMENT
Quincy Jones Productions
Adam Fell/Thomas Duport
+1 (310) 471-4353
NORTH AMERICA BOOKING
United Talent Agency
Darcy Gregoire
+1 (310) 273-6700
EUROPEAN BOOKING
MusicWorks International
Katherine McVicker
+1 (781) 300-7580
Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://www.justinkauflin.com/store
- ▶ Twitter: JustinKauflin
- ▶ Instagram: justinkauflinmusic
- ▶ Website: http://www.justinkauflin.com
- ▶ Blog: http://www.justinkauflin.com/blog
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/JDKMusic757
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCOsuWBHrxRGqwWKcRJAI4LA
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/6mZgKS95Tp3oGaqzuIXjmH
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/2XcEBmp9xgOEifMIHJpTKS
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3ONvVzTsR6KgN1szzzh7Jh
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/2022aL4l7bVNWUlATqELdD
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"Make sure you have enough time to absorb all of the beautiful things in Justin's talent - his timing, technique, rhythm, and exactness. See if you'll agree with me. He's a monster on the piano! And, he's one of the greatest people I've met."
– Clark Terry
"Simply beautiful cat...
you can feel it in every note he plays!"
– Quincy Jones
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
