DJazz combines Jazz, Latin, Hip Hop, Breakbeat, Dub and other electronic music styles. The name “DJazz” is a combination between the words DJ and Jazz … with other words: DJazz = “DJs Jazz”. DJazz project is a “studio project” at present time, but they will be performing their music live in the (near) future as well.

“DJazz” started in 1998 in Zwolle (The Netherlands) inspired by Jazz-hop Projects such as Guru’s “Jazzmatazz“, “Buckshot LeFonque” and “Urbanator. The formation featured: Roelant Hollander (sax, beat creator), Alexander Hartgers (trumpet), DJ Phaze (turntables), Johan Schipper (Fender Rhodes), Rutger Renden (bass) and Roy Kieftenbelt (percussion). The project stopped to exist when Roelant Hollander Immigrated to Bulgaria.

DJazz was revived again at the end of  September 2007, specially for the first electronic music (mini) festival of Trip-BeatMiks (an underground electronic music organization founded by Dimitar “VPD” Kalinov and Roelant Hollander) at Comics Club (Varna). The members of the formation were: Roelant Hollander (saxophones, beat creator), Chavdar Gochev (guitar), DJ Emotion and DJ Ivo-but-not (turntables). After that performance the project pauzed again, due to the lack of time and the individual goals of its members.

In 2008 and 2009 Roelant Hollander participated in the Jazzprofilactika project of DJ Emotion, DJ Jijo and DJ Ivo-but-not. This pleasant experience made them decide to revive DJazz once again. This time with the following musicians and DJ’s: Roelant Hollander (saxes, beat creator / composer / arranger), Miroslav Petkov (trumpet), DJ Emotion & DJ Jijo (turntablizm) and Ivan “Bastardo” Boyadzhiev (studio engineer – the “ears” of the project). Composing new tracks, re-editing some old pieces from ‘98 and creation of various remixes started again.

The first remix “A Touch of DJazz” (released under the label “Musique Tranquille” on 25.01.2010) is a “DJazz’d-up” rebuild of the Collective Sound Members track “A Touch of Jazz” (2004). The first track (Summertime in Bombay) for the debut album that DJazz is working on has been finished (and a “radio edit” of the same piece is on its way).