JJ Whitefield

JJ Whitefield is the working name of Jan Weissenfeldt, a German guitarist, composer, producer and bandleader from Munich. In 1991 he started the Poets of Rhythm with his brother Max, a raw analogue funk group later known as the Whitefield Brothers, whose records inspired labels such as Daptone. His later work takes in Krautrock, African jazz and spiritual jazz. As the Whitefield Brothers, the two brothers released In the Raw in 2001 and Earthology in 2010. Whitefield also formed Karl Hector & the Malcouns with Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, a band mixing Krautrock with African jazz.