Jan Wouter Oostenrijk-guitars,vocals,E-bow,composer/ arranger,bandleader
Mohammed Bouhanna-Arabic percussion,Sala Abdikader Nor-Arabic percussion & 2nd voice, Sebastiaan Kaptein/Rachid Khelif-drums,Marco van den Akker-bass, Joost Swart - keys
Who we would like to meet:
......People who feel connected with our music! ......fans, listeners, musicians,labels,distributers,magazines,reporters,journalists, dj's, concert & festival programmers and so on......
People who like to contribute & develop with us, to make Maghreb Jazz (guitar) in all it's appearances a global joyable music movement!
Influences
too much to mention....please judge yourself, I am inspired by all great musicians who's music touched me
Sounds Like
.......world jazz maghreb rock fusion crossover arab.....
CD's available on
Maghreb Jazz live @ Purejazz festival The Hague 2008
Virtuoso Dutch guitar player Jan Wouter Oostenrijk completed his professional Jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam as student of Wim Overgaauw in 1995. He got a degree for classical guitar as well and took lessons in Flamenco music and Arabic melody. At the open university he also studied Arabic language which enables him to express himself and sing in the Northafrican dialect.
JWO was part of succesful Moroccan formations like Raïland (winner “Gouden Notenkraker “ award in 1996 ). Nowadays he plays with his own formation and combines his experiences with the Northafrican music-culture with his own European roots. JWO’s guitar playing is melting excellent with Arabic Sharki, Raï and Chaâby, his improvisatitions move from jazzy bebob lines to blues to oriental makam like playing . Together with his band they developed an impressive, innovating crossover between music cultures wich you could call Maghreb jazz.
The band released 2 albums- Open up your eyes (2000) and ‘Maghreb Jazz Guitar’(2007)
JWO is not only successful in Holland, he played at big international festivals in Morocco like Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. Beside that he performed in Sudan and Egypt and got a radioindy "Golden artist" award for his album Maghreb Jazz guitar in the USA.
Nowadays his Maghreb Jazz is world wide available and source of inspiration for new music movements !!
Check our latest video L blaed l musiqya (the Land of my music) from the album Maghreb Jazz guitar, shot from a cab in the Rif mountains near Ketama and in Holland
Find out more? www.jwo.nu www.maghrebjazz.nl
ciao Jan Wouter!!! i miss you too my friend.... yes,im still in Casa,rented a room here,ive quite enough gigs to mantain myself,and i met..Someone:) when are you coming back?? hope soon,hope we'll play toghter soon..:) how r things in Amsterdam?how is your wife?i hug you very strong.. my greetings to you two..God Bless You Brother..Love,G
Thank you for the ultragreets! I am very impressed with your music and guitar playing... very unique sound and quality. When are you moving to the U.S. (Washington, DC area) so I can take guitar lessons from you?
Thank you for your comment and for the travel into a wondrfull musical land. Nice playing. So let's share on of mine thrue an African improvisation... Bruno
j'espère que tu es bien rentré et que tu reviendras très bientôt pour un concert de jazz mon mari adore ta musique et moi aussi ici je cours entre associations, ma peinture c'est la folie bonne soirée ,cher ami
Hi Jan, thank you so much for the add and welcome into my little funky-blues space! ...wow, great and definitely smooth phrasings over there... keep on jazzin'! ;->
