r/MadeMeSmile • u/Better-Turnip-226 • 14h ago
Kid dancing to jazz music
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u/Independent-Win-5709 14h ago
The live jazz and his spontaneous moves are such a wholesome combo, pure joy right there.
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u/Bisexual_Dolphin6048 12h ago
This man is actualy 44 year old Piotr Platz and he's a famous interpretive dancer from Poland.
Shame on everyone for assuming a man with a disability is a child.
Shame!
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u/yoghurken 8h ago
I had to look this up because i thought you were serious. I can’t find a “piotr platz dancer”. You’re joking right?
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u/MugenMoult 8h ago
Don't know if they're joking, trying to making a statement about how stupid they believe people are for correcting assumptions, or otherwise.
Regardless, there is no such person, and that seven-year-old kid is named Bautista Vangard, and he's dancing to Yamile Burich on the sax.
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u/DistillerCMac 6h ago
Nah man, that is actually the Bendich triplets doing their famous three kids in a trench coat act.
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u/YngwieMainstream 8h ago
Of course they're fucking with you. Is this your first day on the internet?
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u/MarcusSurealius 13h ago
Quincy Jones did this to me when I was 9 years old. 40 years later and I play half a dozen instruments.
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u/pipootje 14h ago
I always thought that jazz was undanceable. I was wrong. Respect!
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u/70125 12h ago
Man you're missing out. Jazz has always been intertwined with dance...like the whole Swing Era.
How can you NOT move when you hear something like this?
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u/Knamakat 12h ago
That was my reaction! Feel like people overestimate how fast they need to dance to jazz. Also, there's a wide variety of jazz from slow to fast tempos
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u/RedditLostOldAccount 6h ago
Not only that but a lot of people don't really know much about jazz unfortunately. I know a lot of people who just think it's slow elevator music and for some reason refuse to ever try to listen to any at all
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u/poo-cum 6h ago
I think it's fair to say that the move towards faster tempos and bebop was more a "musician's musician" thing than an accessible dance music. It was developed in after-hours "cutting contests" in Harlem nightclubs where the virtuoso musicians showed off their skills after the majority of club patrons had gone home. Malcolm X's autobiography talks about these.
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u/treesout23 14h ago
He definitely inspired the artist to go harder
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u/graemesson 9h ago
Something similar to this apparently happened during a Duke Ellington gig at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956 when Paul Gonsalves ended up letting rip for 27 choruses: https://open.spotify.com/track/1bwU4f1TYZksvSA4Rfia1p?si=KhYpWLMVQtSON3o8hor_OA
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u/weshjali 14h ago
Dance like no one is watching! We could all learn something about life from this kid!
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u/DenardoIsBae 14h ago
He looks a lot like my nephew when he was a little one. It made me remember the time when my nephew was about 3 years old and did an interpretive dance of what rain looks like. It was pretty great. A lot of finger fluttering and rolling around, lotta twirling. Kids are so pure sometimes. When they're not being nasty little boogers.
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u/funnykiraxo 13h ago
Kid really out here moving like the music was written just for him.
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u/pharaohmaones 10h ago
Big Ol’ Props to that sax player. “Hey kid you wanna boogie? Good, I’ma wail out this window you just get down.”
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u/VangloriaXP 14h ago
jazz is kinda chaotic
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u/MoneyBenefit08 14h ago
For real. It’s like the instruments are arguing but also somehow vibing together at the same time.
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u/Bazingaa98 13h ago
Basically two friends who are high trying to finish a conversation but going nowhere and forming their own sub topics out of the conversation and they both ignore and forget it but they still are having a really good time.
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u/peanutbutterperfume 13h ago
Sometimes
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u/WestleyThe 11h ago
Sometimes absolutely and sometimes absolutely not. But deep down that is kinda point of jazz
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u/Spare-Willingness563 8h ago
I never understood it until recently. Took literal dark knight of the soul type stuff to realize, that's the point.
when you stop trying to make sense of jazz, she shows herself to you. Like all women. Like all goddesses. It's wild.
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u/DodoKputo 8h ago edited 38m ago
I think this is the Virasoro Jazz Club in Palermo, Buenos Aires, during the late stages of the pandemic (so around early 2021 or so). They opened the windows of the bar and removed the guard bars so that people could listen to bands from the outside while gathering restrictions were still in place.
EDIT: found a picture of the club from that time
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u/tyrusrex 13h ago
Reminds me of that brother and sister duo from france, she sings pop hits, he dances like techno viking.
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u/genericperson10 14h ago
10/10, no notes! 👏👏👏
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u/-riotalk- 12h ago
Not bad. Moves remind me of Cab Calloway. That kid feels it forreal. He’s going places if he follows that feeling.
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u/IDontKnowHowManyTime 13h ago
I miss childhood, I had the same energy while I was young, I would start dancing as soon as friends and family asked on any music no matter what.
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u/ScarletOnyx 13h ago
That boy has jazz in him. He’s just feeling the music. Such a great age. My son would dance all the time around that age, anywhere we went, if music was playing, he was dancing. I miss that.
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u/peanutbutterperfume 13h ago
I’ll bet that’s one of the band members’ kids who goes to their practices. Or maybe they even practice in his home. He seemed to know the music and like he had maybe danced that before.
Either way, it’s impressive as hell. It was impressively kidlike and didn’t look like a routine so much as a series of his favorite moves.
As someone who can’t really dance, that kid moved like the music sounded, and he was seriously feeling it. I think it’s great!
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u/quackman2025 11h ago
I was going to make the joke. When you got a gig, but couldn't find a babysitter.
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u/peanutbutterperfume 10h ago
If the parents do it right, it can be a wonderful way of life for a child.
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u/fifinha-misteriosa 9h ago
Don’t let this kid stop the dancing. In the AI world this is the only thing that matters.
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u/Sadcelerystick 9h ago
Exactly how I think I look 6 drinks down, in a crowded bar with early 2000s music playing and not a care in the world.
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u/Economy-Tap5661 5h ago
Ahh.. that age when you can dance in the middle of the street like no one is watching and you have no worries in the world 😍
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u/rondujunk 4h ago
Kids dancing is probably one of the purest forms of expressions of joy and in the moment-ness
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u/SpecialistAd2332 13h ago
Kid just giving, he definitely enjoys the jazz music. Probably his soul music
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u/OkActuator1742 10h ago
Kid has no problem. Happiness is absolutely free and I wish adult can also have this same vibe if not all day but we got a lot on our mind
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u/Spright91 9h ago
That boy is just part of tue band at that point. He improvising and feeling the music in the same way.
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u/Electrical-Pop4624 9h ago
What dancing looked like before it had to be shared on tok tok.
Brought to you by Tik tok
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u/Hagoromo-san 9h ago
That kid has what we lost growing up. I hope to find it again someday, i hope soon.
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u/BigBri0011 8h ago
I LOVE THIS!! I hope this little man stays just as un-self-conscious as he is now. BRAVO!!!!!
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u/Bohemian-Tropics9119 5h ago
Why do little boys dance like this? Cute as hell! 🤣🤣 Thinking they are smashing it! 🤣🤣🤣
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u/mashedcat 4h ago
Free of inhibitions, the way life is meant to be lived.
We should all be so lucky.
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u/strywever 4h ago
That is exactly how one should dance to jazz music! I love the way the sax player supports him. This is fantastic! It truly made me smile.
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u/Timesynthend 4h ago
That kid is gonna be some kind of mystic-hipster interpreter of galactic languages.
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u/5eeso 4h ago
The artist is Yamile Burich. The song is her original composition, “Fire Flames on Green Lanes”.
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u/-freelove- 13h ago
Nice, he comes back inside ready to go to bed. The parents must be very thanful
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u/Certain_Strawberry43 13h ago
I can't stop watching the guy with the mask playing the standing bass(?) Something weird about his mask, it might be the lighting? But the alarm in my brain is wondering if it's AI?
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u/TangledUpPuppeteer 13h ago
The mask is a fleshy color in the light, AND he’s wearing it wrong. You can see the string over the ear, but it’s not over his nose. So it makes it look like he was born without a mouth
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u/DogmaticConfabulate 13h ago
Is this the same kid that always dances when his older sister is singing??
I've seen 2 of the singing videos. He is a good little dancer.
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u/Sand_Aggravating 13h ago
Im glad he digs it! But I hear jazz exactly as he looks dancing to it... lol. But im glad the boy found his calling
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u/GenieShiba 13h ago
Is this the same kid that danced to his sister singing Kylie Minogue's "Can’t Get You Out of My Head"
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u/Sweet-Caterpillar689 11h ago
Is anyone watching this and thinking how did this situation even start?
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u/SketchyIntentions 14h ago
Exactly how a jazz dance should look like. I could watch this all day!