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I've got to go with Count Adam on this one. Jack Johnson is like Hawaiian or something, isn't he? Which is, you know, practically black. So he's got way more soul than John Mayer. And he's named after a Miles Davis record, which was itself named after some famous black guy.
Not that I listen to jazz myself. It's too cerebral and technical. Which isn't to say that Jack Mayer and John Johnson aren't highly skilled musicians. But there's an honesty, an authenticity to the singer-songwriter thing that you just don't find elsewhere. Did you know that a lot of those jazz guys don't even write their own music? It's true. People talk about "My Favorite Things" like John Coltrane owned it, but he was just playing Richard Rodgers's notes and chords. Man. You'd never catch Jock Mayson doing that. What he is all about is a deep expression of himself. Bigger than his body. Running through the halls of his high school.
And the way he clowns around with Ben Stiller in that video, you can totally tell he's not stuck-up and doesn't take himself too seriously. He's a jeans-and-T-shirt guy. Charlie Parker, on the other hand, wore a suit all the time, even when he was strung out on smack: there's a guy who's obviously just a leeeeetle too concerned with his image. But not our guy, Major John Jackson.
So here's to you, Jackson Mrazer, truly an artist. For the year. For Barbelith. |
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