José James, uma estrela em ascensão, criou um novo estilo na música contemporânea ao combinar blues urbano, hip hop, soul, drum?n?bass para produzir um som fresco e inovador, mas totalmente enraizado nas tradições do jazz.
O seu trabalho é testemunha da sua paixão pela diversidade, como quando mistura os blues com o piano do lendário Junior Mance, abordando contemporaneamente Nola de Bill Lee, ou quando faz uma abordagem jazz contemporânea do hip hop a soul groove dos anos 70.
As suas composições originais vão desde uma canção linear até ao jazz contemporâneo, ao soul jazz e drum?n?bass, sendo que ainda deixam espaço para baladas poéticas e hinos rock românticos.
O álbum The Dreamer foi catalogado como um dos mais promissores álbuns de jazz de 2008.
?Achava que já não havia cantores assim. Estava errado, José James está aqui para nos lembrar porque é ama-mos tanto a música!?
Gilles Peterson
?José James recebe e honra a herança dos grandes mestres do jazz. Com a sua voz extraordinária, com o seu timbre instrumental, o seu ouvido capta cada nuance e quando canta, conseguimos ouvi-lo a sorrir.?
Janet Lawson
CITAÇÕES
?I thought singers like this didn?t exist anymore, I was wrong, José James is here to remind us why we love music so much!?
- Gilles Peterson
?A natural intimacy that very few people have.?
- Andy Bey
?José James is continuing the legacy of the great jazz masters. With his extraordinary voice, timbered like an instrument, his ears that capture each Coltrane nuance, his lyricism - in his writings and in his passionate expression - the life of the music is being nourished by José James offerings. And when he sings, you can hear it smile.?
- Janet Lawson
?Let us put away the dark days of 2006... and make some offerings to secure a more enlightened 2007. A good place to start is the forthcoming album by José James on Brownswood. The Brooklyn based jazz voice is set to follow in the steps of Jon Lucien... there?s even a touch of Gil Scott Heron... we?re definitely feelin? that version of Trane?s ?Equinox?.?
- Straight No Chaser Magazine
?New Yorker José James is a very special musical voice. Inspired by vocalists Billie Holiday and Bobby McFerrin, by the jazz writing of Jon Hendricks and Kurt Elling, and by the maestro John Coltrane, Jose draws out something of each here, and still delivers something entirely distinct and fresh. Real jazz for the soul.?
- piccadillyrecords.com
PRÉMIOS
?The Dreamer? nomeado para ?Track of the Year? para o Gilles Peterson?s All Winners Worldwide Awards (2006)
London International Vocal Jazz Competition (2006 semi-finalist)
Thelonious Monk International Vocal Jazz Competition (2004 semi-finalist)
RECORDING CREDITS
?The Dreamer? - debut album on Brownswood Recordings (2008)
Nicola Conte - forthcoming releases on Schema Records (2008)
BBC Maida Vale Session (2007)
The Junior Mance Trio ?Live at Café Loup? (2007)
?Blue Note Street? EMI Music Japan- ?A Night in Tunisia? produced by DJ Toshio Matsuura (2007)
?Brownswood Are One? (2007), ?Brownswood Bubblers Japan? (2007), ?Brownswood Bubblers vol. 1? (2006) - compilation albums, Brownswood Recordings
?Universidad Navidena? EMI Records International - ?Let it Snow? (2006)
Fonte: Cine-Teatro de Estarreja