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Jan Wouter Oostenrijk
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Virtuoso Dutch guitar player Jan Wouter Oostenrijk completed his professional Jazz guitar studies at the conservatory of Amsterdam in 1995. He was part of succesful Moroccan Rai formations. After this period he developed his own crossovers where he combines Northafrican music-culture with his own roots. In his music we’ll find energetic strong Roots orientated rhythms and melodic improvisations on guitar that moves from Jazz-Bebop lines ..to screaming Blues and Rock ..to Oriental ‘Maqam’ like playing.
2012: Releasing a new crossover Sharqi Blues
Sharq is the Arabic word for East and refers in general to Bellydance music culture and related art forms. Blues refers to Afro American music culture, electric guitar improvisations, sound and expression.
On the Sharqiblues album Karim Ziad was invited to play drums (Joe Zawinul, Cheb Khaled, Orch. Nat. de Barbes, Hamid el Kasri).
Awards
Gouden Noten Kraker ..Award for significant contribution as a performer by the Dutch Musicians Union Radioindy Golden Artist - USA - Independent Artist Music Award for Best New Music
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Meet Jan Wouter Oostenrijk: Virtuoso Dutch guitarist Jan Wouter Oostenrijk completed his professional jazz guitar studies at the Conservatory of Amsterdam in 1995. He was part of successful Moroccan Rai formations. After this period he developed his own crossovers, where he combines North African music culture with his own roots. His music possesses energetic and strong roots-oriented rhythms and melodic improvisations on guitar that moves from bebop lines to screaming blues and Rock and Oriental Maqama"-like playing.
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Europe is a source of new crossovers in jazz and world music. An inspiring example is the new album Sharqi Blues by Dutch guitarplayer Jan Wouter Oostenrijk (JWO), where energetic bellydance orientated rhythms melt with jazzy improvisations that move from Bebop phrases ...to screaming Blues and Rock ..to Oriental 'Maqam' like playing. On the album former Joe Zawinul drummer Karim Ziad from Algeria was invited to play the drums. JWO released innovative music crossovers before. His album Maghreb Jazz Guitar ...
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Guitarplayer JWO's new beautiful CD "Sharqi Blues certainly blows a strong North-African wind in our country, ...a sandstorm also noticable around the world.
(source Dutch Radio 6 World and MusicFromNL)
Unlike over- discussed integration issues, Sharqi blues shows that the multicultural society is capable of great achievements (source JazzFlits magazine)
Howling electric guitar, rhythm section, hammond organ facing twinkling qanun and a flamboyant Egyptian String Orchestra creates Horny Funky Bellydance in a post modern line-up with constantly changing soundscapes (source Volkskrant 4 stars****)
Primary Instrument
Guitar, electric
Location
Amsterdam
Willing to teach
Advanced only
Credentials/Background
Owner and founder of Guitar School Amsterdam.
Clinic/Workshop Information
Specialised in crossovers between Western and Northafrican/ Arabic music. How to integrate arabic elements in jazz, blues, pop and rock.
Improvising with Arabic scales (on Guitar).
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Music
Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson