Recently, DOMi & JD BECK, a virtuosic duo that plays disputable jazz, booked two nights at the Blue Note. “If I have one big influence on my playing, it would have to be the YouTube algorithm,” Beck said.
Jazz fans are notorious for navel-gazey debates about what constitutes “real jazz.” DOMi & JD BECK, indisputably the buzziest new duo playing disputable jazz, preëmpt the debates by being both more and less real than the competition. They use their real first names, abbreviations and caps-lock glitches aside. Domitille Degalle, twenty-two, is from France; JD Beck, nineteen, is from Dallas.
When Beck was six or seven, he said, he “mostly listened to rock and R. & B., but then the YouTube algorithm would start pushing me down a jazz rabbit hole, or some random video-game theme or J Dilla beat, and I just learned to play all of it. If I have one big influence on my playing, it would have to be the YouTube algorithm.”
Degalle moved to the U.S. to attend the Berklee College of Music . “In school, they love to analyze: ‘This sounds good because it has this structure or that tempo,’ ” she said. “Me and JD, we don’t fucking think about any of that. We just sit around and play and play, and we end up with, like, a verse in 7/4, a hook with a bunch of vocal harmonies, and a drum-and-bass outro.”Recently, they booked two nights at the Blue Note, on West Third Street.
In the Blue Note’s greenroom after the set, Degalle and Beck were visited by the pianist Robert Glasper, along with his young son. “Y’all were smashing,” Glasper said. He complimented their rendition of “My Favorite Things,” which led to a discussion about how to play standards—when to trade fours, when to comp, when to lay out. “This may be the nerdiest conversation I’ve ever been a part of,” Beck said.
Sitting nearby was Cameron Celebuski, a college student who had taken the train from Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Degalle and Beck are gamers, and they have a Discord server with nearly fifteen thousand members; Celebuski is a moderator. How had he discovered their music? “Oh, the YouTube algorithm,” he said. “They’re the only thing I’ve found that literally never gets old.” ♦New Yorker Favorites
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