Chapter 114 (1/2)
Volume 3 / Chapter 114
TL: LightNovelCafe
[TN: JH is too OP for his own good huh? lol]
“Push my morning flight tomorrow back a day. Yeah… I’m going to leave the day after tomorrow. I need to stay an extra day… There’s nothing I can do. Adjust my schedule in Philadelphia… Yeah…”
Bruno Kazel came out of Jun Hyuk’s room and changed his itinerary to return to Philadelphia. It was not that he did not realize this is a nuisance to his manager, but he felt that there would be lingering regret if he just went back like this.
Bruno Kazel left the room, but Danny could not get out of his shock. It has already been 3 months since they shared a room. He had thought that they had gotten a lot closer and that he knew Jun Hyuk well. But he realized today that he had been mistaken in thinking that he knew his roommate well.
Since the first time he got in trouble for reading a score first, he had not even looked at Jun Hyuk through the side of his eye when he was composing. Danny meant to respect Jun Hyuk’s solemn consciousness. He did not know why, but Jun Hyuk always sent his songs to Korea when he completed them. It was not even in an e-mail, but postal with the paper score.
Scores he sent at least once a week. Danny hated himself for not even taking a peek at them. If he had seen even a little, he would have been able to notice Jun Hyuk’s true self.
He needed to push all other thoughts in his head and ask the most important question. Danny cautiously opened his mouth,
“Jun. A slow development with advancement one step at a time… Does that mean there’s a lack of talent?”
“What?”
“You said it just now. Amelia has the potential to jump over a wall but I don’t.”
“Yeah. I think so.”
Danny dropped his head when Jun Hyuk responded without a second of hesitation.
‘Oy. This kid grew up in a lenient environment. He has a fragile mentality.’
Jun Hyuk started laughing.
“Hey, Danny. Are you misunderstanding me?”
“What?”
Danny still had his head down.
“Do you think I’m saying that Amelia is a genius and that you’re just average?”
“Isn’t that what you meant?”
“It’s very different.”
Jun Hyuk was trying to come up with a way to explain the difference between Amelia and Danny when he thought of two musicians.
“Hm… Do you like jazz?”
“Of course.”
“Who’s better? Miles Davis or John Coltrane?”
“Hey! How do you pick? They’re both amazing.”
“Right? Aren’t they both geniuses?”
“Of course.”
A great alien who unluckily crash-landed on this planet from space, the king of jazz, Miles Davis.
When major record label Columbia gave a scouting offer in 1955, he was already under a contract with Prestige Records.
To cancel the contract, he would need to release as many albums as the agency had demanded. The saxophonist who joined then was John Coltrane.
In order to figure out the problem of the dual contracts with Columbia and Prestige, Miles Davis needed to record with Prestige more. In 1956, he ended up recording 4 albums for the so-called ‘in’ series ‘Steamin’’, ‘Relaxin’’, ‘Workin’’, and ‘Cookin’’. This record became one of the best in Hard Bop (spirit of jazz that is melodic and funky).
“Miles Davis made two albums a day, four albums in two days. That kind of music comes out even if he is improvising and playing without much thought. But what about John Coltrane? He’s someone who really made an effort, practicing until he went to sleep. Going up one step at a time.”
Danny finally lifted his head when Jun Hyuk compared him to John Coltrane.