submitted on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 07:06 in Jazz Group by Serginho 
Listen out for this guy in 2008. Vocalist Jose James isn't going to be the next Jamie Cullum--his style is too understated and his attitude faces purposefully away from the mainstream--but The Dreamer, Brooklyn-based James' debut album, has star quality.
James made a splash in late 2007 with a reworking of John Coltrane's "Equinox," and he's four-square in the post-bop vocal tradition established by older singers like Mark Murphy, Jon Lucien and Leon Thomas. But there is nothing remotely anachronistic about his music, which is cool, poised, immaculately hip and, like that of his fellow alumnus from New York City's New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music, pianist Robert Glasper, touched by the low-slung groove of the hip-hop generation...
Source: allaboutjazz
