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First of all we'd like to wish you, and everybody close to your heart a very soulful new year.
And as 2009 is promising to be a very interesting one here at JazzandSoul, we start by announcing the 2008 TopTrack Winner. Over 1000 readers found their way to the TopTrack voting form and what we expected to be a nice thing to do, turned out to become a battle of the band fans. And a close call it was but our favourite Dutch band Talking Loud carry the honor to receive the very first annual www.jazzandsoul.eu TopTrack award with their amazing Very Necessary track. Check them out and we would like to thank all voters, for taking the time to support their artists and bands. Thank you.

> Talking Loud - Come a little bit Closer EP Review

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Review

I can't mention it enough. Reviewing albums makes 'the world go
round' . Getting to know artists that want their 'baby' to be
reviewed on www.jazzandsoul.eu just makes my heart jump.
Nevertheless, as an independent wesbite we're obliged to listen
to these works as objective as possible and while this sometimes
is quite difficult, I'm stunned again every day when I notice the
amount of quality music released while our charts are chock -
full with crap.
Another one of those great albums to arrive at Jazzandsoul HQ,
is the self - titled debut CD of Honey Brown. ...

> Read the ful Honey Brown review on www.jazzandsoul.eu

> read the full article : D'Angelo ... A story So Far on www.jazzandsoul.eu

As you might have noticed, Brahim was nominated on the 2008 TMF Awards in Antwerp (Belgium) for Best Male and Best Urban.

Let's show some love and support to this fantastic artist by voting him to victory.

Just click the banner and VOTE !

Thanks all in advance.

From today we've also added some videos to our content.

We've always received a lot of questions from our visitors about when we would add music and video.

Our deckplayer should be fixed this month and awaiting this, we created a video spot on the site.

At the moment 3 videos are online as a test :

- D'Angelo : Me and those dreamin' eyes of Mine

- Maya Azucena - Set you Free

- Eclectik Soul - Introduction video

Let us know what you think about the pages so we can start adding tons of videos in the future.

Rising from Oakland's vibrant underground, FEMI celebrates a trio of life
forces on her debut EP, "Sweet Water Soul." It has love, the gift of prayer,
and is fluid like water, which is the underlying theme of the EP. Here at
www.jazzandsoul.eu we received an advance preview of Femi's debut.
The full review will be online soon, but here you can already read what
Femi's Sweet water Soul is all about.

> Read more about Femi on www.jazzandsoul.eu

We've got a new winwin contest on the www.jazzandsoul.eu website.

Mr. James Gathings was kind enough to deliver us some extra copies of his debut project BMF.

You can read the review on our website and if you want to take a shot in winning a copy visit our winwin section.

> Take part in the James Gathings - BMF contest on www.jazzandsoul.eu

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Review

James Gathings, a new singer, songwriter, producer puts his nose
against the window with his first six track project BMF.
A CD containing experimental urban jams with street attitude
lyrics and playful rhythms.
On the first track, Bad Mothafucka, James spits his words over a
heavy drum and some biting guitar licks. A song, containing quite
some common features with for example Lenny Kravitz' work. ...

> Read the full James Gathings review on www.jazzandsoul.eu

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Review

The Urban Retropolitan Movement is the brainchild of Neal
Conway (who has cranked hits such as Gypsy Woman "She's
Homeless" (Crystal Waters), Rejoicing (Ultra Naté), ...).
A project featuring artists such as Robyn Romele, Dana Weaver,
and Marshall Booze.
Love like That and Stop & Go, both smooth, mid - tempo jams,
open the doors into this collection of fourteen neo - soul, lounge,
jazz, disco and spoken word fusions. ...

> Read the full Neal Conway review on www.jazzandsoul.eu

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Review

Tracking new and gifted soul talent, promoting
independent artists through his show on Solar Radio,
we're talking about Phil Driver. With his latest Soul
Unsigned EP concept, Mr. Driver is collecting, what
he believes, tracks that need to be heard from a
couple of bands that either have no formal recording
contract or are operating out of small independent
record companies.
Need to say ... much respect for these projects.
EP:001 and EP:002 both contain 4 tracks of soulful,
funky, good vibe grooves. ...

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