Patrick Bartley Jr.

Patrick Bartley Jr.
Birth name	Patrick Alexander Bartley Jr.
Born	(1993-01-07)January 7, 1993 Hollywood, Florida, U.S.
Genres	Jazz J-Pop
Occupation(s)	saxophonist bandleader composer
Instruments	Alto Baritone Clarinet

Patrick Bartley Jr. (January 7, 1993), is an African-American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and founder of the J-Music Ensemble.

Biography

Childhood

Patrick Bartley Jr., born and raised in Hollywood, Florida, during his early childhood wasn't particularly interested in music, but was really into visual art and video games. Many of his projects to date have some kind of connection with video games, which have always been part of his musical background. In his early education, during which he was part of the school band, he started learning the basics from Melton Mustafa Jr., son of the trumpeter Melton Mustafa. He began playing the clarinet, then moved to the baritone sax and finally to the alto saxophone. He did not own a sax himself until he was 17 years old and his very first horn was a personal present from Jeff Clayton: a Yamaha model 62 alto sax. Their relationship started when Bartley came to the Vail Jazz Workshop in 2010, where the workshop instructor, Clayton himself, found out about the terrible condition his almost unplayable horn was in, nearly crumbling apart. And while he tried it, he let the teen try his own. "When that saxophone got into my hands, that was the moment when everything clicked. That was the moment I realized this is what I was going to do for the rest of my life," stated Bartley. "From that moment, I took all influences and used my saxophone to communicate the experiences. Music has never felt labored. It never felt like something I had to do."

Early career

Even before finishing his studies, he received the opportunity to perform at the Gardens Jazz Festivals in Miami, Florida, and to record professionally his music, collaborating with Melton Mustafa Sr. and Jr. Eventually, in 2010, he played at the 52nd anniversary of the Grammy Awards with the Dave Mathews Band and then received an award himself (the YoungArts Gold Award in Jazz), after appearing in the HBO special "Wynton Marsalis: A YoungArts Masterclass", in which he performed and recorded music with Marsalis. He was then featured on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and continued to play with the Late Night Show's pianist Jon Batiste and the other members at the Village Vanguard. Later, in the Jazz Gallery Mentoring Series Bartley explored new musical genres with Dayna Stephens, performing both his and Stephens' compositions. Furthermore, in 2019, Bartley, because he had always taken inspiration from Cannonball Adderley, celebrated with both Brianna Thomas and Steve Miller the saxophonist in New York's Jazz at Lincoln Center, by playing "Cannonball Adderley and The Blues". He played at many other Jazz Festivals as well, like the Santa Lucia Jazz Festival in New York City at the Lincoln Center, venue that is directed, guided and founded by Wynton Marsalis.

J-Pop (Japanese Music)

In his early childhood Bartley became interested in the popular Anime Dragon Ball Z, and eventually, throughout middle school and high school, he started playing Japanese video games ( Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe), and practiced his saxophone by playing along their soundtracks: he then realized the various patterns and connections of this music genres with the African-American Blues he would listen to in his childhood, identified with the stress and distress of the melodic tension. Similarities with Jazz exist, since the composers who worked on numerous video games soundtracks took inspiration and were influenced by the music genre. It has its own characteristics though, as for example its rhythm, since, as Bartley underlined in a video by Adam Neely , strictly follows the structure of Japanese phonetics: Japanese is, indeed, a monophonic language, and therefore its music must follow the same rhythmical patterns. An example of Bartley's Anime related projects is the Charity Single from My Hero Academia in which he featured together with over 80 other musicians worldwide, including the Japanese songwriter Yuki Hayashi, My Hero Academias' composer.

Collaboration with the Emmet Cohen Trio

Patrick Bartley performed with the Emmet Cohen Trio in a series of concerts, both live and through the platform of Youtube. There he executed a solo on the After You've Gone standard, which became of interest by many other musicians across the web.

Discography

• Marcus Printup: Young Bloods (SteepleChase, 2015)
• J-MUSIC Ensemble: Furtherbound (2016)
• J-MUSIC Ensemble: Time to play (2016)
• Jon Batiste: Anatomy of Angels (Verve Records, 2018)
• Jon Batiste: Chronology Of a Dream (Verve Records)
• J-MUSIC Ensemble: Metagroove, The Music Of Persona
• Eric Hutchinson: Before and After Life (Let's Break Records)

External links

• Discography at Discogs
• Youtube Channel
• Emmet Cohen w/ Bruce Harris & Patrick Bartley-After You've Gone

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