Debtors of the sound of Steely Dan and framed in the West Coast style, Jango is a band from Los Angeles that was founded in the late nineties by Steve Le Gassik and Michael Price, who along with Steve Nieves, Niko Kirgo, Leon Johnson and Dave Beyer released their first album titled "Dreamtown" under the Gold Circle label in 1999.
In this first album, the mixture of instrumental melodies in the purest style of smooth jazz is interspersed with vocal themes with attractive melodies, themes very close to pop but with the essence of jazz like "City of the Second Chance", "With Your Love" is a romantic smooth jazz song that flooded L.A. radio stations and was very popular and "Sunset to the Sea" is a memory of the aforementioned Steely Dan.
A year later they bring their second album "Closer To Home", in which the band reinforces the sound of smooth jazz with funky touches and delves even more in the style of Donald Fagen with an exquisite production and arrangements and with a set list that it remains at a high competitive and instrumental level.
(Dedicated to my friend Jose Maria Varela, - a great audiophile and a great connoisseur of the jazz world, - who introduced me to this band many years ago)
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