José James — North Sea Jazz Festival, 2017

Full live concert of singer José James at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on 7 July 2017. This filmed full concert captures the American artist, a leading figure of contemporary vocal jazz, touring his Blue Note album Love in a Time of Madness, released that same year. On the Ahoy stage, José James unfolds his warm tone and supple phrasing at the crossroads of jazz, soul, hip-hop and R&B, in arrangements where groove and space matter as much as melody. A self-declared heir to both John Coltrane and Bill Withers, the singer embodies a generation that opens jazz up without betraying its rigor. The North Sea Jazz recording, from one of the most prestigious jazz festivals in the world, conveys the intimacy and sensuality of a concert carried by a vocalist of quiet but total charisma. An ideal document for lovers of vocal jazz, soul and cross-genre music in concert, filmed in professional conditions and preserved in full from a landmark European festival.