Jay Lou Ava is an exceptionally gifted musician and hitmaker. Father of the Progressive Afro Jazz ( PAJ ), Jay Lou's style is a soft fusion between smooth jazz and African melodies. The meeting of different cultures.
...Jay's music is the kind we expect from a contemporary African artist: mature, smooth, harmonious and delicately mixed. The music is original in that it uses a guitar lead on African rhythms, which is seldom the case. The guitar, moving easily from a binary rhythm to a highly complicated 6/8 beat, surprises us, while the player does not lose himself in long and complex monologues.
Through Jay Lou's style, modern Africa seduces the Western world. The music is meant to reconcile styles and people and to bring them hope and peace.
This smooth African ambiance mixed with jazz is recommended as a must to those who want to discover soft and refreshing African rhythms.
Fred Edmonds ( All About Jazz )
