re: #38 Charles Johnson

I’m not talking about popularity at all. I’m talking about the sheer genius this kid exhibits. His understanding of harmony and rhythm and voicing is absolutely mind-blowing. I’ve never heard anything like it.

And by the way, he reportedly doesn’t write out these insanely intricate parts. It’s all performed from memory.

He’s a one-man Swingle Singers, or Manhattan Transfer, or New York Voices. Some of the voicing is done electronically, I suspect, but to do it in real time several times in perfect time with the other voices is quite a feat.