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Scott Bradlee (born September 19, 1981)〔 is an American musician, pianist, composer, and arranger. He is known for his viral videos on YouTube, including his work under the moniker Postmodern Jukebox. ==Biography== Scott Bradlee is a pianist, composer and producer best known for being the creator of Postmodern Jukebox, an ever-evolving, revolving collective of performers playing popular music in period styles. Bradlee grew up in the Pattenburg section of Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey where he fell in love with jazz at the age of 12 after hearing George Gershwin's ''Rhapsody in Blue'' for the first time.〔Kuperinsky, Amy. ("Vintage gone viral: Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox takes music back in time" ), NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, October 14, 2014. Accessed July 9, 2015. "Bradlee grew up in Pattenburg, a part of Union Township in Hunterdon County."〕〔(Biography ), Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox. Accessed July 9, 2015. "Which isn’t to discount the importance to Bradlee’s development of Michael Jackson’s ''Bad,'' the vinyl incarnation of which was, he says, 'the first album I ever loved.' That was when he was six, growing up in Pattenburg, New Jersey, where he moved at four from Nesconset, New York. He took piano lessons, but they didn’t take. Then, at age 12, Bradlee heard ''Rhapsody in Blue'' and was forever changed."〕 He attended North Hunterdon High School.〔(Post Modern Jukebox Coming to Lehigh! ), North Hunterdon High School, October 16, 2015. Accessed November 5, 2015. "Scott Bradlee, the creator of Post Modern Jukebox (the band that covers contemporary pop songs in jazz, ragtime, etc. styles), WENT HERE! That’s right; the father of PMJ was once in your shoes as a North Hunterdon High School student!"〕 Bradlee became a successful performer in the New York jazz scene, and served as music director for an interactive, off-Broadway theater experience called ''Sleep No More''. In looking for creative inspiration, Bradlee began reworking popular music as an exercise. In 2009, he released "Hello My Ragtime '80s", which incorporated ragtime-style piano into popular music from the 1980s. After playing and experimenting on stage at his regular gig at Robert Restaurant, he released the compilation ''Mashups by Candlelight''. Bradlee gained popularity in 2012 with ''A Motown Tribute to Nickelback'', a collaboration with local musicians which arranged Nickelback's songs in the style of 1960s style R&B music.〔 In 2013, Bradlee began to work more seriously on forming Postmodern Jukebox, a rotating group of musicians producing covers of pop songs in alternate styles, including jazz, ragtime, and swing. The group burst onto the public radar with their doo-wop cover of Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop", featuring vocal group The Tee-Tones. As the viral surge grew, Bradlee was interviewed by news outlets such as NPR and also performed live on ''Good Morning America'' and Fuse. The group visited ''Cosmopolitan Magazine's'' New York office for a year-end review of their work and popular songs from the year. Several artists have publicly noted their appreciation for the group's work. Among the group's prominent guest musicians are Dave Koz, who collaborated with them in a jazz covers of "Careless Whisper" and the ''Game of Thrones'' theme music, and Niia, who joined them for a "space jazz" version of "The End of the World". Postmodern Jukebox's October 2013 collaboration with Puddles Pity Party on a cover of Lorde's "Royals" generated particularly strong interest; as of September 2014, this video remained the second most popular on Bradlee's YouTube channel with over 8.7 million hits.〔ScottBradleeLovesYa, YouTube. Retrieved on 2014-09-25 from https://www.youtube.com/user/ScottBradleeLovesYa.〕 In 2013, Bradlee found interest from the video game industry, gaining a composer credit for 2K Games' ''BioShock Infinite'' soundtrack, which features four of his stylized arrangements: a piano cover of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" (piano and vocals), a jazzy ragtime cover of Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" (arrangement, piano), and covers of R.E.M.'s "Shiny Happy People" (arrangement and piano) and "After You’ve Gone" (arrangement, piano).〔 In early September 2014, Bradlee uploaded a 1940s jazz interpretation of "All About That Bass" called "All About That (Upright) Bass", featuring Kate Davis singing solo while playing double bass, with Bradlee on piano and Dave Tedeschi on drums. The video received 8 million hits in three months. Also in 2014, Bradlee's YouTube Channel "Postmodern Jukebox" was listed as #42 on ''NewMediaRockstars "Top 100 Channels".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://newmediarockstars.com/2014/12/the-nmr-top-100-youtube-channels-50-26/ )〕 In late 2014 to 2015, his band was to tour America and Europe. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scott Bradlee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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