ISWHAT?! with Napoleon Maddox (NapoleonSolo Vox), Joe Fonda and Oliver Lake

The human beat box Napoleon Maddox (known too as NapoleonSolo Vox), the bassist Joe Fonda and the saxophonist Oliver Lake with "ISWHAT?", at the AMR, Sud Des Alpes,Geneva, Switzerland. November 2007

Gonjasufi : Portrait backstage

Backstage portrait of the vocalist Gonjasufi at the Kab, Usine, Geneva, Switzerland. August 2010

R.I.P. Guru, a jazz lover, who created the hip-hop jazz (ex Gangstarr and Jazzmatazz)

The 19th of April 2010, the hip-hop rapper Guru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_(rapper)), legend of the hip-hop jazz, passed away at 43 after a battle against the cancer

I took him photos in August 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland during the Festival Musiques en Ete I had too some words with him, he was kind, gentle and was a jazz lover. Below the photo you can hear a tune he recorded with Branford Marsalis. He had as jazz guest on some cd's jazz musicians as Herbie Hancock, David Sanborn, Brownman, ...

I posted already some monthes ago a photo I took to him with the trumpeter Brownman ( http://juancarloshernandezjazzphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/07/guru-and-brownman.html )

RIP Guru ..

Juan-Carlos Hernandez

Brownman

Award-winning trumpet player from Trinidad - BROWNMAN - pictured here soloing hard with GURU's JAZZMATAZZ at the Parc La Grange, Scène Ella Fitzgerald,Festival Musiques en Eté, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2009

Guru and Brownman

The US hip-hop singer Guru with the jazz trumpeter from Trinidad, Brownman at the Parc La Grange, Scène Ella Fitzgerald, Geneva, Switzerland. July 2009