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A bit of a prodigy, Brandon Goldberg began playing piano when he was three.
He began playing professionally as a very young teenager and is now 15.
Goldberg has performed at several festivals (including Newport and Litchield), played at many clubs in New York, Baltimore and Florida, and has thus far recorded two albums as a leader.
On his LiveStream from July 13, 2020, Brandon Goldberg performs a set of originals plus “Just You, Just Me” with his trio which includes the masterful drummer Ralph Peterson just a few months before his passing, and bassist Luques Curtis.
Throughout this performance, Brandon Goldberg shows in his creativity and originality that Joey Alexander is not jazz’s only child prodigy.
This is the hundredth and twenty-eighth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.
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Ayo Awosika is a vocalist whose singing crosses musical boundaries, having the improvisation of jazz but also utilizing r&b rhythms
She graduated from the Berklee College of Music, went on tours where she opened for Carlos Santana, Richie Havens and Peter Eldridge, toured with Miley Cyrus and other pop acts, worked as a backup singer and a vocal arranger, and has been part of the meditative r&b band Blesd.
On her LiveStream from July 12, 2020, Ayo Awosika utilizes electronics to create her own rhythmic choir on the opening number (which is quite singable), and performs two appealing folk songs while accompanying herself on guitar,
