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Bass Player,
Songwriter,
Producer.
Since 1999, Scandinavian bassist Jan Simons has had the privilege of playing with many of the world's best musicians in r&b and jazz music. After legendary trumpeter Kenny Wheeler joined his jazz sextet and Simons gained international recognition with his album "Answer", a wide co-operation between top players from USA, UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland began. Playing 150 highly recognized gigs a year, with focus mainly on modern r&b and soul, Simons has been expected to release his debut album in the style for some time now.
The audience is about to get what they have been waiting for very soon. In the fall of 2007, the album "Simmons" will be released. For this recording, Simons gathered a band consisting of musicians that have been the foundation of the groove in bands and with artists like Chaka Khan, Erykah Badu, David Bowie, ABBA, A-Ha, the Brecker Brothers, John McLaughlin, Santana and many more. The result is a thoroughly produced musical entity, aiming for the charts with the sound of today, still with the organic factor in the music well preserved.
The band is more than proud to present their true star, Julie D. An astonishing soulful voice with a wide dynamic range and an interpretation that gives the project its flavour of american popular music with something of a European trend to it. All wrapped up in a good looking package.