Metropolitan Jazz Affair - MJA
2004 Le Maquis
a cura di: Franco Mannarini

Are you completly satisfied about your last work?
Well as far as I'm concerned, I am really satisfied with it..... We did not expect the succes the record met.For us, producing this record with a kind of game or experience. From the musical point of vue, they are only very few things I would change if I could step back in time.
Wich are the most important ispiration for doing this new album?
the musicians involved into MJA have reaaly various tastes and influences, which makes it rich and sometimes very surprising. I don't know what the others would say, but guys like Horace Silver, Gil Scott Heron, Marvin Gaye, Koop etc. What we have in common in this band is that we don't really see any boundary between soul and jazz music.
Is There some others artists that you think important to reccomend us?
if it is about today jazz music, i think that US soul and hip hop are giving a new breath to jazz music...(E.Badu, Madlib etc....).
Quantic from the UK, Nicola Conte or Sleepwalker from Japan, those are good surprises !!! But for european jazz, I guess that the scandinavians are the most innovative (EST, Five Corners Quintet....)
Are there some others projects for the your future?
million !!! the second LP from MJA is being prepared and we all have personnal projects. Mine are called Patchworks (jazz, deep house and soul) bvand the Dynamics (soulful reggae band). MJA musicians are involved into those various projects, too.....
Is there something in your album that you don't like enough?
well, actually, ther's nothing to do with the music, that would be about the money ..............No, to be serious, I would say that the first album may be a bit long....as long as i can remember, there are 15 songs, which is quite a lot !!!!!!!

Bruno Hovart - Metropolitan Jazz Affair
www.patchworksproductions.com