Jose James

Eclectic Brooklyn brooklyn hailing modern jazz artist Jose James is set to release his latest album No Beginning No End on January 22nd and ahead of the release he offers the full album for your listening pleasure. [...]

If there is one thing we like doing here at SoulCulture it’s providing our loyal readers with good quality music for a variety of occasions and moods. Today, to help you begin the countdown to the weekend, we bring you some chilled out funky vibes from the ever so talented Jose James – in the form of DJ [...]

Just in case you were thinking of giving Oh No‘s new LP OhNoMite a pass (shame on you), the underground hip-hop stalwart offers the “Dues N Don’ts” cut for your streaming pleasure. The album may have locked down features from MF DOOM, The Alchemist, Rapper Big Pooh and plenty more acclaimed rap names, but two [...]

Acclaimed jazz vocalist Jose James performs an outstanding cover of jazz legend Billie Holiday’s mournful “Strange Fruit.” [...]

Here’s a new project to definitely keep an ear out for this year: jazz-inspired New York-based vocalist Jose James has been in the studio this month finishing off his latest album, No Beginning, No End; with a host of quality, ear pleasing musicians, songwriters and producers on-board for the ride, including Robert Glasper, Chris Dave, [...]

Let’s look back on events that shaped a week the music world won’t forget, with news on Amy Winehouse’s sudden passing and tributes to the late singer, new music from Jay-Z and Kanye West, The Game, Dappy and Papoose, with a free download from Tyga and trailers for the first official Spider-Man movie and The [...]

It’s not been all that long since the iconic Gil Scott Heron passed away, yet it’s good to see people keeping the memory of him alive, particularly when those people are Jose James and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. Check out the video of their performance of “Winter in America” below – and also, if you’re a Londoner [...]

New York-based Jazz/Soul singer Jose James blesses us with this previously unreleased collaboration with über producer and musician Flying Lotus titled ‘Vicadin’. As with their earlier released collaboration ‘Code,’ from Jose’s 2010 sophomore album Black Magic, the undeniable chemistry that these two share simply oozes out of every fragment of this mid-tempo musical arrangement upon [...]

LeFtO Films filmed Jose James live in Belgium last week, on his European Tour in support of his recently released album BlackMagic (via Brownswood Recordings). Press play for “an intimate back-stage view of Jose James and band performing live: Next stop: America… Visit myspace.com/josejamesquartet for US tour dates. Thanks to Jonathan for the heads up. [...]

With a full a black suit, a seriously seductive smile and a touch too much charm in his swagger, Minneapolis-born jazzy singer/songwriter José James looked more like he was about to go an expensive date than perform at London’s Jazz Café on Friday night. That said, with tickets going for £20 on the door, perhaps [...]