# Jerk · Producer, Composer, Beatmaker · OBRA

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Jerk · Jerk is the Brooklyn-based project of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Joni Kinney, exploring the liminal space where jazz, hip-hop, and R&B meet. Drawing from 

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## Jerk

Producer ·   Composer ·   Beatmaker

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# Jerk

PRODUCER ·   COMPOSER ·   BEATMAKER

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Jerk is the Brooklyn-based project of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Joni Kinney, exploring the liminal space where jazz, hip-hop, and R&B meet. Drawing from Charlie Parker and Gene Ammons through 70s fusion figures like Don Blackman and Patrice Rushen to beat culture icons J Dilla and Madlib, Kinney blurs hip-hop beats with instrumental jazz compositions across saxophone, flute, guitar, bass, Rhodes, and synth. Releases on DeepMatter Records — including Mood Swings, Some Cosmic Shift, and the 2025–2026 narrative EP cycle as night falls / as day breaks — have earned support from Huey Morgan on BBC 6 Music, Jazz FM, Rinse FM, Stereofox, and Somewhere Soul. With over 110 tracks in catalog and a May 2026 release of as day breaks alongside drummer Martine Wade, Jerk continues evolving beyond the beatmaker tag into electroacoustic jazz, funk grooves, and soulful daylight soundtracks built for both headphones and live rooms.

![Jerk](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5ebf9f9ba12b9b53277e60b5d75)

JERK Portrait · 2022–PRESENT

▸ VERIFIED STREAMS 4.763.802 TOTAL · 4.8M

11 DAYS · Total

Releases 20

Years active 2022–PRESENT

This week  · ▲ 0.5% · 4K/day

Streams this week +25.016 4.8M TOTAL

Best day +164K Sep 2

Spotify +25K 100% OF TOTAL · 7D

YouTube — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

SoundCloud — 0% OF TOTAL · 7D

FASTEST GROWING
Voices in my Head ▲ 1.3%  still dreaming ▲ 4.9%  L.Y.F.F.F ▲ 0.5%

Trending this week  · 5 climbing

Last records broken  · 5 milestones

Milestones  · 1 milestone

4.5M CATALOG · streams
Jerk Sep 2026

Top tracks  · Ranked by streams · 10

Collaborators  · 1 artists

![Jerk](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5ebf9f9ba12b9b53277e60b5d75)

Jerk

60 tracks · 4.8M

▸ Curatorial

## OBRA BY JERK

20 RELEASES

ROLE

### 2026

4 releases

### 2025

4 releases

### 2024

5 releases

### 2023

3 releases

### 2022

4 releases

Catalog · Notes  · Curatorial

Bio

Jerk is the Brooklyn-based project of composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Joni Kinney, exploring the liminal space where jazz, hip-hop, and R&B meet. Drawing from Charlie Parker and Gene Ammons through 70s fusion figures like Don Blackman and Patrice Rushen to beat culture icons J Dilla and Madlib, Kinney blurs hip-hop beats with instrumental jazz compositions across saxophone, flute, guitar, bass, Rhodes, and synth. Releases on DeepMatter Records — including Mood Swings, Some Cosmic Shift, and the 2025–2026 narrative EP cycle as night falls / as day breaks — have earned support from Huey Morgan on BBC 6 Music, Jazz FM, Rinse FM, Stereofox, and Somewhere Soul. With over 110 tracks in catalog and a May 2026 release of as day breaks alongside drummer Martine Wade, Jerk continues evolving beyond the beatmaker tag into electroacoustic jazz, funk grooves, and soulful daylight soundtracks built for both headphones and live rooms.

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