"Every so often, the discerning music listener is lucky enough to come across an album that stands a cut above the rest and shines as something truly brilliant." (Rip It Up Magazine, Australia)
"The combination of genres ... allows the band to incorporate a brilliant array of sounds and musicians with each bringing an extraordinary energy to the often complacent roots genre." (dB Magazine, Australia)
Hoad's music lives in a place where jazz, jam, reggae, funk, pop and Australian tribal music meet, creating an eclectic sound of global proportions. Some of the band's main influences are Michael Franti, John Butler, Xavier Rudd, Bob Marley, Jamie Cullum, James Brown, Blues Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Avishia Cohen, Jaco Pastorius, Charles Mingus, Primus, Jack Johnson, everyone and anyone!
The Jay Hoad Band is an extremely high energy six piece band... with a beautiful belly dancer. Hoad’s creative compositions blend funk, rock, reggae, latin, pop and jazz with traditional Australian influences punctuated by dynamic horn infused arrangements and unique blends of instrumentation. Similar artists that Hoad counts among his influences are Michael Franti, John Butler, Xavier Rudd, Bob Marley, Jamie Cullum, James Brown, and Jack Johnson.
Born in Fiji, Hoad hails from South Australia where he earned his University degree in jazz performance. Jay then left Australia to tour the USA and Europe with the Australian Jazz Quartet and has since played acoustic and electric bass with Dionne Warwick, the Temptations, the Drifters, Blood Sweat & Tears among others. In 2007 Jay temporarily settled in the United States to concentrate on writing and performing with his newly formed group, the Jay Hoad Band.
In 2009 the band released their highly anticipated multi-genre debut album "Warmth in the White" which was written whilst on tour in Australia in early 2008 and recorded in the US later that year. Hoad’s composition "Rat Race" was a recent runner up in the 2008 Australian Songwriter’s Association competition. Song lyrics, although delivered in a fun and exciting manner, focus on many controversial subjects including environmental issues, political contradiction and many other random observations culled from his world travels. Jay plays up to 15 instruments throughout the CD and during his live shows including acoustic bass, electric bass, didgeridoo, dobro, lap steel guitar, 12-string guitar, ocarina and more.
The Jay Hoad Band is affiliated with and relies on the support of several environmentally responsible organizations while they embark on an accelerating touring schedule at clubs and as featured festival performers, dividing their time between North America, Australia, South Asia, the Caribbean and Europe.
HEAR JAY HOAD BAND SONGS ON THESE RADIO STATIONS:
The B • 95.3 & 101.7 -- 866.320.9932
JoeFM • 107.5 -- 888.729.5631
Big • 98.5 & 103.5 -- 866.292.5483
The Beach • 93.5 -- 800.234.9350
Ocean • 98.1 -- 877.723.9626
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Guy Pratt in store THIS WEDNESDAY, 15th of July 2009, from 2:30pm. Guy currently plays bass with Pink Floyd and has recorded with the late Michael Jackson , Madonna, Tina Turner, Jimmy Page and many more. He will be here to have a chat and sign autographs. You can also go in the draw to WIN a 100 watt Ashdown Five15 bass amp, just by showing up. So come on down and have a laugh … you may walk away with that Ashdown bass amp!!
Hey Jay how you going champ? Really digging your sound awesome stuff. Hope you checked out our latest track titled Found. On this track we have liberal sprinklings Geoff Bradley and Pete Raidel (Goose) on trumpet and sax respectively, the dish finished with Tony Minnieconn's patented vocal awesomesauce. Love to know what you think? Keep that bass bubbling and definitely will catch one of your shows soon. Cheers Shaun M (The Lowend)
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Hi Jay Hoad, Nice music, very easy on the ears. Have a great show at Higher Grounds FLOW
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To all the lovely mates of the totally rockin Jay Hoad Band, My name's Foz, and I did all of Jays art that you see around his lovely page... Please take 3 minutes to register and VOTE for my comic, it would mean the WORLD to me! I'm in second place with 3 days to go!!! All I need is your time, just a tiny bit! The place to go is www.zudacomics.com and my comic is called 'Deadly' Love Foz
hey Jazza! Hope you've had a wonderful summer/winter... looking forward to seeing you soon (i'll def check out the waterfront show in md!!!) miss you... Lazz
Jay! G'day mate, Aeon and I are going to be in Oz on the 14th of April! Where you gonna be? Are you playing at the Byron Bay Festival??? I have a couple of friends that still live around there and might be going. All the best.
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