Bye-Ya!
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.
The group has recorded three albums, all of them released by Challenge 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.
'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.
‘Further Arrivals’ (CR73290) Recorded on 13 July and 11 November 2008, mixed and mastered on 9 december 2008 and 12 february 2009 by Paul Pouwer at Power Sound Studio, Amsterdam.
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.
The group has recorded three albums, all of them released by Challenge 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.
'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.
‘Further Arrivals’ (CR73290) Recorded on 13 July and 11 November 2008, mixed and mastered on 9 december 2008 and 12 february 2009 by Paul Pouwer at Power Sound Studio, Amsterdam.