The latter part of 2012, within a two month period, I had the opportunity to attend two, count 'em, two Jose James show experiences. The first show was in October at the legendary Royce Hall on the UCLA campus where he and Taylor McFerrin opened up for the Robert Glasper Experiment. The show was super dope, and I began to fall in love with his tone. He gives me hints of Al Jarreau, but he truly has his own unique vocal instrument. Not to mention he brings hip hop flavor to the jazz world with his New York fitted caps on tilt and black leather jacket ensemble, but creates music that makes the jazz greats proud. However, you can't put labels on Jose James because he crosses and blends many genres together to create Music, which makes him a perfect fit here on Really Not Radio. The next show I caught was an intimate show presented by KCRW at the Apogee Berkeley St. Studios in Santa Monica, CA. This show definitely reinforced what I already believed about Jose James, but had the chance to get to know a bit more about the man behind the Music from the interview below with KCRW's Tom Schnabel. This was such a great show to experience because it just felt so right. His band mates were so on point, and are top notch. There's nothing better than hearing the vibrations of real instruments. *chills*. Jose James is currently on tour, and his latest album just released 1/18/13 called "No Beginning No End". Purchase it here from iTunes. Here are his digits, well you get what I mean Twitter, Instagram, Soundcloud and YouTube.
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