musicality

"I love their musicality, and the way they pour everything into their performances," says Seungmin.

The industry often measures musicality through technical proficiency or traditional modes of listening, which excludes so many ways of knowing and expressing.

“We have this problem in studying the origins of musicality … Music doesn't fossilize,” said Henkjan Honing, a professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam.

“That was everything for me because there is such a musicality to that speech,” O’Reilly says.

In the jazz up and comers of today, the hallmarks of improvisation, musicality, humanity and depth are very much present.