"Need a jolt, feel like dancing? Or just assurance the state of Latin Jazz is alive and well?" (Jim Josselyn, ALL ABOUT JAZZ, about Bye-Ya!) Bye-Ya! was founded by Jens Kerkhoff and Mick Paauwe in the beginning of 1999 with the idea to create a new combination of latin-music and jazz. The interaction and openness of jazz are mixed and integrated with exciting and swinging Latin-American and Afro-Cuban grooves. Complex harmonic accompaniment and exciting rhythms build up the basic for beautiful melodies and inspired improvisations – this is the formula of Bye-Ya! Bye-Ya! is not just a project or pickup group assembled for a recording, it’s a band! A band that consists of the total of five different backgrounds, nationalities, characters, creative visions and musical evolutions which together make up the unique sound of Bye-Ya! Bye-Ya! is Latin jazz at it's best – more than a mix between these two styles, it is interaction and reaction between latin music and jazz. Discography The group has recorded two albums, both released by Challenge Records /A-Records. 'Bye-Ya! - The latin jazz quintet' (AL 73215) was released in march 2001 and was recorded on 4 and 5 December 2000 at studio LeRoy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was produced by Angelo Verploegen, recorded by Chris Weeda and Jurre Wierma and mixed by Chris Weeda. MORE 'Dos' (AL73241) was released in October 2003 and recorded 21 and 22 April 2003 at Studio Leroy, Amsterdam. It was produced by Bye-Ya! and recorded and mixed by Chris Weeda. MORE Claudio Roditi about Bye-Ya! - The latin jazz quintet 'I like the CD very much. What impressed me the most is the instrumentation. It is very refreshing to hear this type of Latin-jazz with only one horn. Jarmo sounded great, especially with the harmon mute and the same can be said to everybody else. The material is equally hip.' Star trumpeter Brian Lynch about Bye-Ya! - The latin jazz quintet 'It sounds great! I love the playing and the compositions alike - and the trumpeter's a bad mf.' Issac Delgado 'Bye-Ya! - que chévere!'