“I will never forget the wave of sensations I felt when I heard Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue on vinyl for the first time.”
“The year is 2002 and I am studying jazz drumming at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida, my hometown. I started playing the drums at the age of 7 years old and ended up winning the audition that year to become a student. I was beyond excited! Everyone at the time was listening to iPods and the radio. I personally had never heard vinyl in my entire life till one day a fellow student invited me to come jam with him.
It was on that faithful day that my life was forever changed. We were studying the art of swinging and I was obsessed with a certain album—Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue. It was on repeat on my iPod! Well my friend and I started discussing my love for the album.
He then surprised me and pulled out the record on vinyl. He had found it at an old antique shop. His parents had a record player so we rushed to put it on. My ears had never heard a record so clear! It was like being right there in the studio with them!”
—Jon Wilkes, KOU
“’Burn’ is about how as humans we have let hatred and the media consume us for decades and it’s time for a transformation. This revolution starts with us.”
KOU, the new new project from Jon Wilkes, former drummer from The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus debuts “Burn” today on all streaming platforms.
