Contemporary jazz musician Jacob Collier incorporates audience harmonies into his latest album, 'Djesse Vol. 4,' featuring over 100,000 singers from around the globe.
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Each volume features collaborations with artists across the globe. But this time, the 30-year-old also harnessed voices of the audience at his shows to create harmonies for the album. Collier often acts as a conductor at his concerts, directing different sections of the crowd to sing segments of his songs, placing microphones around the venue to record their contributions.One track on “Djesse Vol. 4” is titled “100,000 Voices," and it quite literally features that many singers.
“There's like over 100,000 people on the album,” he says. “Over 100 of those are established artists or members of groups like orchestras and choirs and things that I really love and respect, from every single continent of the world. But yeah, most of 100,000 voices are the audience members from tour.”for the 2025 award show, including album of the year, global music performance and best arrangement, instrumental or a cappella.for each of his first four albums.
Collier believes that everyone can sing and considers himself to be “a leader of a choir,” in his audience improvisations and onstage collaborators. “I really try to make space for all these different kinds of people to just feel welcome," he says."And if they can feel welcome, then they’re a part of the music.”“I don’t have a clear idea of exactly what’s coming next, which I love, actually. Sometimes in life you need those moments of question marks," he says.
"I’ve got like about a billion ideas, but I haven’t committed to any yet because I think I need a moment just to sort of recalibrate and see.”The 67th Grammy Awards will be held Feb. 2, 2025, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The show will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+. For more coverage, visitCopyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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