I accidentally discovered Tom Misch during a music lesson in Fresno, and the bass instructor introduced me to one of his songs, “It Runs Through Me ” from his Geography album. I have been obsessed with his music ever since the release of his Geography and What Kinda Music albums. Tom Misch was the first jazz musician I listened to, as the high school jazz band I played in performed a variety of pop music. Ever since then, I’ve been trying to find more jazz artists who can expand my musical knowledge and allow me to listen to different genres of music.
Background
Tom Misch is a British artist who grew up with musical influence. His father was a violinist who took four-year-old Misch to operas and violin lessons. At the age of 9, he became very interested in guitar after his sister decided not to continue playing guitar. The role models Misch looked up to were John Mayer, for his skills on guitar, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, for the quality of sound he created on guitar. Although he gained a lot of inspiration from the two artists, it was his early education that helped increase his producing knowledge that changed his musical talent.
The Sixth-Form College is a British education system meant to allow students in 11th and 12th grade to advance in college-level education depending on their grades and skills. Misch went into a Music Technology Sixth-Form college where he learned “...how to create his own ‘really chilled out, boom-bap kid of ‘90s hip-hop' on Logic Pro” (Last.fm). He continues to produce his own music with 5 albums from 2014 to his recent one, Quarantine Sessions (2021) and 18 singles.
What Kinda Music
The album, What Kinda Music, features Yussef Dayes, who is a jazz drummer, and Rocco Palladino on bass guitar. Some of the songs also feature other musicians, such as in "Nightrider" (featuring Freddie Gibbs), who is a hip-hop artist with impressive vocals, and Kaidi Akinnibi, a saxophonist featured on "Storm Before The Calm" (feat. Kaidi Akinnibi). This album was composed of different jam sessions that both Misch and Dayes recorded while exploring jazz. In a 2020 interview by Maxim Meyer-Horn, Misch stated, “We never expected this to be an album and just experimented with both our sounds. We went into the studio, messed around, and saw what happened” (Maxim Meyer-Horn).
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