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Member Since: 3/19/2008
Band Website: jazzmeeting-berlin.de
Band Members: Monsieur Dubois feat. Joe Bowie (Defunkt) In the past years, Monsieur Dubois created a strong live reputation with an attractive mix of Junglebeats, Funk, Souljazz and Afrogrooves, a.k.a. “Danceable Hardjazz”. With this convincing hybrid, catchy and sophisticated sound, Monsieur Dubois has been able to attract a very diverse, international public.
Bowie, youngest member from a musical family (brother of Lester and Byron Bowie) entered the scene late 70’s with his visionary band Defunkt and thus created a strong source of inspiration for many groups, amongst others Living Colour and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The second Monsieur Dubois-album arrived in september 2007: “Soul Integration” (Challenge Records, CR77049), a collaboration with American tromboneplayer and vocalist Joseph Bowie, leader from the legendary, New-York punkfunk group Defunkt. Monsieur Dubois and Joe Bowie:

“...sounds like truly urgent danceable hardjazz!”
Volkskrant - Koen Schouten

“A strong and tight sounding unit [...] With Soul Integration Monsieur Dubois prooves to be ready to conquer the rest of Europe...” 4,5 stars review JAZZ magazine - André Dadi

“An album that leaves behind a lot of the current hypes in a brilliant way” De Morgen - Didier Wijnants

Some time ago a tip from DJ Soul Rabbi lead Monsieur Dubois to Joseph Bowie, who appeared to have previously moved to The Netherlands. During several spectecular try-outs it was evident that the expressive sound of this remarkable musician provided Monsieur Dubois with a formidable extra weapon!

Joe Bowie - vocals, trombone
Bart Wirtz - saxophone
Rik Mol - trumpet
Maarten Meddens - keys
Kasper Kalf - double bass
Udo Demandt - percussion
Rudi Sanders - drums

State of Monc State of Monc has a musical story to tell, which they do with amazing drive and variation, all the while toying with the balance between electronics, brass and acoustic bass and percussion. The result is music with the smarts and soul of jazz that pumps with the energy of dance.

“Germany has Jazzanova, France has St. Germain, and we, we have State of Monc." OOR (Geert Jan Jacobs)

Arthur Flink - trumpet
Hielke Praagman - electronics
Jörgen Fleskens - bass
Tuur Moens - drums
Milan Bonger - Altosax
Ben van den Dungen - Tenorsax
Johan Hendrikse- keys

Soap Produkzioni This is wonderfully crazy. It’s an example of what we all should know a bit more about, the incredibly diverse jazz scene in Berlin thet’s, er, wonderfully crazy. Eva Kruse is the bassist in Michael Wollny’s highly acclaimed trio [em], and her beautiful tone features on "die strassen von hamburg" that morphs into an accomplished soprano sax feature Lars.
The key ingredient in all this is electronics....... Well constructed, with thoughtful and original use of electronics, great soloing from Lars and Hendrik that draws you into the mix and keeps you wondering where all this is leading. .... Every track fearlessly tries new ideas; some work, some don’t but the sense of musical adventure here is palpable.
Jazzwise (Stuart Nicholson)

Lars Dieterich – Sax, Reeds, Efx
Hendrik Stiller – Keys, Rhodes, Samples
Eva Kruse – Kontrabass
Pelle Hinrichsen – Drums, Loops, Laptop
+ DJ Soul Rabbi [rabbi records] wwww.myspace.com/soulrabbi

+ DJ Rogall www.myspace.com/royalrogall

Sounds Like: NuJazz
Record Label: Challenge (SunnyMoon)
Type of Label: Indie