This picture is from a studio session in 2011 with Reggie Washington, Jozef Dumoulin, Gene Lake & Jef Lee Johnson.
It was for Reggie's second album "Freedom".
Jammin'colorS label released its first CD in 2006 with New York bassist Reggie Washington who has played with some of the most influential artists on the music scene: Steve Coleman, Cassandra Wilson, Branford Marsalis, Meshell Ndegéocello, Roy Hargorve, Archie Shepp.
This first CD includes two live concerts from Reggie's first European tour with saxophonist Ravi Coltrane and drummer Gene Lake and from his other trio with Erwin Vann and Stéphane Galland.
Over the years, we've continued to create CDs with Reggie Washington but also with other musicians such as drummer E.J. Strickland, Cuban pianist Manuel Valera, flutist Hadar Noiberg, vocalist Paul Jost and drummer Gene Lake. We believe that all these artists have their own musical personality and deserve to be heard worldwide.
If you listen to the music of the Jammin'colorS label, you can hear many different influences: jazz, funk, hip-hop, fusion, world, folk, classical and much more.
"There are two kinds of music: the good and the bad. I play the good kind." - Louis Armstrong
Latest release
Justin Hicks - Man of Style
Recorded almost entirely across two days in Long Island City, Queens, and produced with longtime collaborators Meshell Ndegeocello and Chris Bruce — Man Of Style is a biography of a voice exploring its own edge, and its beating heart. Hicks’ art is an experiment in singing, and in each track on Man Of Style his voice builds a bridge to the listener. As a songwriter, Hicks makes a home loitering at the edge of folk, R&B, even noise, but in the end the songs stand alone on their own terms — letters, poems, dreams, mantras, manifestos. With this album Hicks claims a space for music that lives with you, not for you — music that takes care.
The album’s title, Man of Style, is more than a nod to fashion or polish. It’s an acknowledgment of multiplicity. Hicks is not one thing—he is many, and his music makes space for all of it. Justin’s work moves with a kind of narrative intimacy, drawing on the storytelling traditions of artists like Marvin Gaye, Roberta Flack, James Taylor, and Jeff Buckley—artists who blurred the line between confession and performance. And while the record finds kinship with more contemporary artists like Nick Hakim, Georgia Anne Muldrow, and Moses Sumney—musicians who let the work lead, his approach feels fully his own. Hicks offers not just an album, but an invitation: to feel more, to hear differently, and to embrace the strange poetry of being alive in a complicated world. It’s the kind of work that doesn’t beg for validation—it simply unfolds, confident that those meant to find it, will.
QUOTES
"Truth and Surprise Fill the Songs of Justin Hicks" — Tidal
"Transparent voice moves from pretty to pained within a single phrase" — Wall Street Journal
"The album serves as an autobiography of sorts, one that finds Hicks exploring the boundaries of his own voice through elements of soul, folk and even noise rock." — Rock And Roll Globe
"He manages to fuse a rich array of R&B, soul, rock, jazz, and folk music, dressing his songs in each genre effortlessly." — WNYC
"A Soulful Meditation in Poetry and Song." — The Culture LP
"Justin Hicks with his deeply expressive, vibrato-laden lines that brought life to the moving balladry of “Eyes” and the triumphal encore of “Love,” where he merged with Ndegeocello’s groove to produce a euphoric experience of group harmony that reverberated long into the night." — Downbeat
"Justin Hicks reclaiming the singer-songwriter identity that persisted through decades of noise rock, sound art, and theatrical performance." — The Tonearm
