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Making Biggish plans
Jazz artist creates music, movies, murder mystery
By Jessica Parks
Brooklyn Paper
He’s a man of many arts!
A Windsor Terrace polymath
will launch a jazz album, a crime
novel, and an indie film over the course
of the next few months. Up first for JC
Hopkins will be an album recorded with
his Biggish Band — a 10-piece jazz orchestra
complete with four vocalists.
Hopkins said that some of the tunes on
“New York Moment,” set to be released
on April 5, have wound up being unintentionally
appropriate for the current
topsy-turvy moment in the city.
“This album is almost inadvertently
topical in a way,” Hopkins said. “It sings
of trying to make sense of a world that
is a little discombobulated and has been
in a quite obvious way.”
The twice Grammy-nominated jazz
pianist, producer, and songwriter described
the lyrics on his new release as
part of a conversation, which he paired
with melodies that he hopes will resonate
with listeners.
“Attached to that melody line is a lyric
that is of a personal nature, in the sense
that is mostly one person talking to another
person,” he said. “It’s trying to explain
how I feel about the other person,
about life, or whatever it is.”
Several of those songs make up the
soundtrack of the upcoming movie “Poets
are the Destroyers,” for which Hopkins
also wrote the screenplay. The film, tentatively
slated for release this summer,
was inspired by weekly poetry readings
in Williamsburg, where Hopkins heard
verses from a diverse range of young
Brooklynites. When Hopkins taught a
screenwriting workshop alongside the
film’s future director Nancy Pop, he said
that it all came together.
“People say ‘Let’s do it’ all the time,
but the next thing I knew she was like
‘When can you have it done?’ ” Hopkins
said. “They just made it happen
that summer.”
The artist’s upcoming crime novel,
“The Perfect Fourth,” draws inspiration
from his musical life. The book’s
main character is a Brooklyn pianist, although
this one has a two broken hands,
a dead ex-wife, and a shady girlfriend
who might be a killer. The book, his
third, will be published by Noir Nation
next month.
The musician, author, playwright,
and screenwriter said that he is able
to juggle so many projects because he
Man of the moment: JC Hopkins is releasing an album on April 5, a
book next month and a screenplay this summer.
feels passionately about each of them —
and because he collaborates with likeminded
creators.
“When I get inspired, things move
pretty quickly,” he said. “It’s a combination
of having a clear vision of what
I want to do and also working with talented
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“New York Moment” will be available
on all major streaming platforms
on April 5.
“The Perfect Fourth” will be available
on noirnation.com in late April.
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