“Sir Duke” Deconstructed: Stevie Wonder’s Ode to Jazz

In the latest episode of Earworm, Estelle Caswell and Jacob Collier break down Stevie Wonder’s Sir Duke, in which he pays tribute to the jazz artists that inspired him, both in lyric and in the arrangement of the music. As someone who isn’t musical but has experience programming, writing, designing, and doing science, it’s fun to see a similar borrow/remix/homage process at work on a virtuoso level.

• Estelle Caswell
• Jacob Collier
• music
• remix
• Stevie Wonder
• video