Jeanfrançois Prins “J Mood”

Jeanfrançois Prins guitar, vocals, Kelvin Sholar piano,

Marc Muellbauer bass, Eric Vaughn drums

J Mood was founded by Prins Sholar and Sholar in Berlin, Germany, a dozen years ago. With their quartet, they share a collection of strong melodies, deep grooves, sophisticated blues and soul with the other members of the band: the audience (original compositions, revisited jazz standards, as well as tunes from Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Earth Wind & Fire, …)

Prins and Sholar share many values about music and humanity. This will be a new beginning for their music sharing, a new meeting, more than 10 years after their last performance together in Berlin.
Expect surprises and a wide range of emotions from this group of highly interactive individuals.

Kelvin Sholar comes from a multi-generational family of musicians in Detroit, Michigan (USA), he sang as a child. At sixteen, Sholar began piano lessons; then, he won first place in the Michigan Bach Festival performing from J.S. Bach’s “Well Tempered Clavier”.
Since then, Kelvin has worked allover the world with Jazz greats Lenny White, Wallace Roney, Ron Carter, Vanessa Rubin, Patrice Rushen, Roy Hargrove, Birelli Lagrene, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Jeff “Tain” Watts, and Greg Osby, among many others as well as greats in other styles, including Stevie Wonder, Qtip, Carl Craig and Nigel Kennedy. Kelvin Sholar performs Jazz, Blues, Pop or Classical compositions in theaters, concert halls, clubs and festivals worldwide. He teaches Jazz piano, English speaker training for foreign vocalists, and electronic jazz at Franz Liszt Weimar. He has appeared in newspaper, television, radio, podcast and film (Spike Lee, …).
Belgian guitarist Jeanfrançois Prins is a melodic storyteller. Based in NYC and Berlin for many years, he has performed all over Europe, the Americas and even Asia with many jazz giants – Lee Konitz, Toots Thielemans, Kenny Wheeler, Randy Brecker, Bill Evans, Kirk Lightsey, Eddie Gomez, Benny Golson, Gary Bartz, Fred Hersch, Billy Hart, Quincy Jones, to cite but a few. With deep roots in the whole Jazz tradition (from swing to avant-garde), and a far-reaching musical vocabulary running from French Chanson to Boleros, from Brazilian music to contemporary Classical to R’nB/Soul, he loves music, and most of all he loves sharing music with his bandmates and his audience.