Artists
Jamala is a Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar jazz singer (spinto soprano) performing music of her own composition at the junction of jazz, soul, world music, and R&B with elements of classics and gospel.
In the late 1970s, Rick James rescued Motown Records, providing funky hits that updated the label's style and saw it through into the mid-'80s.
When organist James Taylor vowed to move into the realms of jazz and away from rock, the James Taylor Quartet found themselves central to a new, London-based acid jazz movement.
Jamiroquai experienced chart success in just about every other area of the world with an irresistible blend of house rhythms and '70s-era soul and funk.
Al Jarreau was a virtuoso performer who balanced smooth lyricism with his own innovative brand of vocalese.
Swedish singer / songwriter Jay-Jay Johanson infuses the measured, slow-burn aesthetics of downbeat and trip-hop with the metallic pulse of electro-pop, resulting in his own signature brand of electronic melancholy.
Jazzamor is a German musical duo started in 2001, their music is influenced by lounge, nu jazz, bossa nova, and Latin jazz of the '60s.
Jazzanova arrived in 1997 with Fedime's Flight, an exquisitely layered production that had more in common with dancefloor jazz-funk truffles by Azymuth and Lonnie Liston Smith than with anything contemporary.