The duo talk about working with the jazz pioneer on their debut album, Not Tight, collaborating with Anderson .Paak and not making music for ‘psycho jazz musicians who stay up until 8am’
omi and JD Beck might be the first musicians to ever shitpost their way into the jazz pantheon. At 22 and 19, respectively, they’re both undeniable prodigies – the former a keyboardist who plays with the same speed, intensity and militant precision that most people her age use to text, the latter a drummer who could probably keep perfect time with the ECG of a cardiac arrest.
They also have more in common with your average meme account admins than most artists signed to longstanding jazz label Blue Note: they refer to their rendition of John Coltrane’s My Favourite Things as My Favourite Ballsack; their spin on Coltrane’s Giant Steps is, of course, Giant Nuts; they once joked that their debut album would be called Pussy With Balls.
It’s a little puerile, sure. But it is Domi and JD Beck’s blithe disregard for convention, aesthetically and musically, that has made their debut album, Not Tight one of the year’s most anticipated debuts. It’s what got them noticed in the first place. “When we were coming up as teenagers, [we were] around a lot of music that’s very slow,” says Beck, calling from Dallas. “You’ll go to a jam session and they’re playing, like, really slow R&B.” Adds Domi: “And on the radio, everything is the same tempo.” Naturally, Beck says, when he and Domi first started playing, they felt the need to harness the energy that they were missing. “We wake up, and we gotta play fast,” says Domi.
Beck also began playing as a child, in Dallas, learning classical piano from the age of five and then drums. “I gravitated towards jazz because of the fast drums,” he says. “I grew up playing Led Zeppelin and the Police – it put me in that zone.” YouTube also proved helpful: he would watch “like, 10m videos” of iconic drummers such as
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