Music
If you didn’t know the history of the English group Jamiroquai, it might be easy someday to assume that leader Jason Kay formed the outfit after being inspired by the dance-minded ‘70s music in the film “Boogie Nights.”
Nov. 21, 1997
Pop Beat: Jason Kay, lead singer of the British R&B; band Jamiroquai, aims to spread the group’s success to America’s Top 10.
May 10, 1997
Jamiroquai is to jazz and funk what the New Kids on the Block were to hip-hop and rock: cute and catchy--though minus the choreography.
June 3, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
Despite Jamiroquai’s obvious debt to the ‘70s-era soul/pop/funk of Stevie Wonder, the English quintet’s concert on Friday at the Hollywood Palladium was more about celebrating its roots than worshiping the past.
May 19, 1997
Jamiroquai’s Jason Kay likes the rock star glitz brought on by the hit ‘Virtual Insanity.’ But he also wants his band ‘to last for 15 or 20 years.’
Dec. 7, 1997
On ‘Synkronized,’ the band catches a sizzling case of disco fever. : *** JAMIROQUAI, “Synkronized,” The Work Group
June 6, 1999
The energetic audience at Jamiroquai’s concert Wednesday at the Greek Theatre danced for nearly two hours with the kind of spirit you found at shows by such pop-soul masters as Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire.
July 9, 1999
A concert by the young English band Jamiroquai at the Roxy on Monday might have provided the answer to the mystery about what happened to British rock: While America’s future Pearl Jammers and Stone Temple Pilots were learning riffs off their older siblings’ Sabbath and Zep albums a few years ago, their English counterparts were apparently studying the Average White Band and Rufus.
Oct. 20, 1993
POP/ROCK MTV Winners: Last year’s Grammy darling, Silver Lake’s own Beck, edged out English newcomers Jamiroquai to pick up five MTV Video Music Awards during ceremonies in New York Thursday, including best male video for “Devil’s Haircut.”
Sept. 5, 1997
Jeff Ayeroff and Jordan Harris stepped down Tuesday as co-presidents of Sony Music’s Work Group, the Santa Monica-based home of such acts as Fiona Apple, Jamiroquai and Jennifer Lopez.
June 23, 1999