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. Beside that he got a degree for classical guitar and took lessons in Flamenco music and Arabic melody. On stage he developed into a great player and his music shows us all corners of the world.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 ) en Noujoum Raï. 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 . Together with his band they developed an impressive, innovating crossover between music cultures wich you could call Maghreb jazz or Jazz Marock. The band released three albums; - open up your eyes (2000) and the live album - meet the rhythms of RAI (2003) and-Maghreb Jazz Guitar (2006)JWO is not only successful in Holland, in the summers of 2004 and 2005 he played at big international festivals in Morocco like Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech. Beside that he performed with famous Sudanese singers Alkably and Amal Anour at the Dutch embassy in Khartoum and with Gnawa player Majid Bekkas from Marocco. November 2006 they played at the fashion shows of Salima Abdel Wahab in Basel
YouTube Video ResizerCheck the 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 HollandFind out more? www.jwo.nu www.maghrebjazz.nl
