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Jose James at Java jazz 2013..

James is the son of a Panamanian saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. James attended The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. In 2008, he debuted with his first album, The Dreamer, on the Brownswood label. BLACKMAGIC followed in 2010.2010’s For All We Know came out on the Impulse! label. For All We Know became the winner of both the Edison Award and L’Academie du Jazz Grand Prix for best Vocal Jazz Album of 2010.

No Beginning No End is a seamless musical experience that moves between different styles with remarkable fluidity, bound together by James’s transcendent voice. It marks a new chapter in the artistic journey of the 33-year-old singer/songwriter.

Along the way, he recruited a mighty team of collaborators that include noted producer/bassist Pino Palladino; pianist/composer and fellow Blue Note artist Robert Glasper; R&B singer/songwriter/guitarist Emily King; international French-Moroccan singing star Hindi Zahra; and the 2011 Thelonious Monk International Piano Competition winner Kris Bowers.

James has already established himself as a trailblazer for his intoxicating blend of jazz, hip-hop, R&B and electronica from his previous three albums. His 2008 debut The Dreamer and its 2010 follow-up, BlackMagic-both produced by the world-renowned DJ Gilles Peterson-transformed the Minneapolis-born, New York-based singer into an underground sensation in both the modern jazz and DJ culture scenes. His musical path follows its own rhyme and reason. James is a musical omnivore, an artist that resists being pigeonholed, equally at ease on stage with jazz legend McCoy Tyner as he is in the studio with rapper Oh No or electronica pioneer Flying Lotus.

P.s He is my favorite on java jazz 2013!! I LOVE YOU JOSE JAMES..God bless you..:*

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The Soul Rebels at Java jazz 2013…

The Soul Rebels formed when Lumar LeBlanc and Derrick Moss, originally members of New Orleans’ iconic Dejean’s Young Olympia Brass Band, decided they wanted to play the new, exciting music they were hearing on the radio while respecting the tradition they loved. Both New Orleans natives, the pair was steeped in the fundamentals of New Orleans jazz, but inevitably, contemporary styles of music began to seep into their psyches. While LeBlanc attended the famed St. Augustine High School, Moss went to Lil’ Wayne’s alma mater McMain High School, and paraded alongside soon-to-be Cash Money Records CEO Ronald “Slim” Williams in the school’s marching band. All around were new sounds they found as exciting as the horn-combo style featured in jazz funerals since the turn of the Twentieth Century.

“We wanted to make our own sound without disrespecting the brass tradition,” LeBlanc recalls, “so we knew we had to break away.” They found a stylistic middle ground when they spun off and formed a band of young, like-minded local players from all over New Orleans. All graduates of university music programs throughout the South, they picked up influences from outside the city as well as late-breaking local styles and began mapping them onto the marching band format they had learned in school.

Soul Rebels honed their skills where most New Orleans brass bands do-in the street. But by the time they were a functioning unit, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band had already broken out as an international touring act. That band’s success showed Soul Rebels a New Orleans brass band could not only have a contemporary sound, but it could also have a place on stage. Although the Dirty Dozen had updated the brass band tradition with elements of R&B and funk, Soul Rebels took it a step further, incorporating hip-hop, especially through half-sung, half-rapped lyrics. “Most of our originals have vocals,” says LeBlanc. “You wouldn’t have done that in a traditional brass band.”

Soon, Soul Rebels’ contagious originals and updated takes on standards won them a loyal local audience. They began rocking some of New Orleans’ most beloved live music venues. A chance gig opening for the Neville Brothers got them a real start-and an official name. It was youngest brother Cyril Neville who first called them “Soul Rebels,” a band that strived to incite positive change in its treasured musical heritage.

Since those days, the band has settled on a eight-piece lineup, building a career around an eclectic live show that harnesses the power of horns and drums in the party-like atmosphere of a dance club. Their weekly show at Uptown New Orleans spot Le Bon Temps Roule has been known to descend into a sweaty shout-along as the band mixes up songs from its five studio albums with hits by Jay-Z and OutKast.
Averaging around 250 shows per year, the Soul Rebels have brought the party to stages as far away as South Africa and Europe, playing some of the world’s best-known music events, including the North Sea Jazz Festival, Jazz Ascona, Antibes Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Fest, Bonnaroo Music Festival and, of course, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. While touring the U.S., Soul Rebels have shared the stage with notable artists from many corners of the pop and jazz worlds, including Metallica, A Tribe Called Quest, Green Day, The Roots, Counting Crows, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, Digital Underground, Allen Toussaint, Lionel Hampton, Terence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis.

When Hurricane Katrina struck their hometown in 2005, the band scattered across the region. Though a few members relocated to cities in Texas, the band frequently reconvened for gigs in New Orleans, this time with a renewed purpose. “Music has been the number one vehicle for Katrina recovery,” says LeBlanc. “That catastrophe has brought so much world wide attention to our music.”

Indeed, since the storm, the band has been more successful than ever serving as an international ambassador of the New Orleans sound. Now a hardcore touring band with a solid-as-ever lineup, the band has recently represented its hometown on television, appearing in the season finale of the HBO series Treme and the Discovery Channel hit After the Catch. But the title of its 2009 live album, No Place Like Home, reveals exactly how the band feels about its city’s rich cultural heritage and the opportunity to spread it around the world.

Matthew Sayersz and Friends at java jazz 2013…

Mathew Sayersz was born in Bandung, 28 Mei 1988. He love to read books, sport, and movie. He is growth in family that make music part of them. He was began his carrier at 2006 in reality show ” Bintang cari Bintang ” and became runner up. After that many musician looking for him because his unic. characteristic such as Idang Rasjidi Syndicate, Lopin Loop Band, Benny Likumahuwa & Young Jazzy Connections, Farabi Youth Big Band, Dwiki Dharmawan’s Project dan Barry Likumahuwa Project. Matthew became the vocalist for a band that was initiated by the young bass player Barry is Barry Likumahuwa Likumahuwa Project. Why Glenn suddenly glanced This talented young singer? First glimpse of Matthew Glenn has been at the BCB Trans. Glenn brings vocal group called PASTO caring. That’s where Glenn was first attracted to color the sound of a Matthew Sayersz. Coupled with a hallmark and a stage act that he has made Glenn thinks “He has somethin ‘….” For this initial project, Matthew Glenn prefers issuing singles before planned in early 2010 Glenn will start for his album project. Matthew Pop Soul Sayersz choose the path to live her music career. But he still wants to develop music for dijalur not alone. The concept is similar to Glenn musical that music can not be boxed-boxed as he once said “Maybe tomorrow I can make reggae, jazz, Malay or other bermusikku but adapted to the style.” First single titled EXTRA. Aided by a friend, her best friend in the world music that Rayi RAN. With a touch of Rap Rayi, EXTRA song became very colorful. Likewise also the cultivation of music. Barry Manilow plunge handle that as arranger and musician sessionist (guitar and keys) are all filled by Glenn himself. Launch of Matthew Sayersz feat.Rayi single titled EXTRA RAN has been done in mid-August 2009 at your favorite radio stations. Having been in recent years a vocalist Matthew Barry Likumahuwa Project, finally in early October 2011 was Matthew will launch her first album, titled Love & Honey is produced by cultivation and distribution through SEVEN MUSIC

(source : Java jazz fest official web)

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