What Does It Mean To Be A Child Prodigy In Jazz?

What Does It Mean To Be A Child Prodigy In Jazz? To help make sense of all that, All Things Considered host Audie Cornish spoke with Jazz Night In America host Christian McBride — a bassist who could have been seen as a prodigy himself, in retrospect. "Revisionist history would say yes, but I grew up with a real child prodigy by the name of Joey DeFrancesco," McBride says. Decades later, there's another young keyboard player named Joey making waves in the jazz community. He was discovered by Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock, and impressed a Jazz At Lincoln Center audience in 2014 with his version of "Round Midnight."