Kyle Jason is a singer, songwriter, musician and performer from Roosevelt, New York

Roosevelt, New York

Roosevelt is a hamlet in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 16,258 at the 2010 census.Roosevelt is in the town of Hempstead.-Geography:Roosevelt is located at ....

. He was the host of The Kyle Jason Show on Air America Radio

Air America Radio

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. The program was broadcast every Saturday night from 2004 until January 2006. His band plays in various styles, from jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 to Rhythm and Blues

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 and he released two CDs, Generations (1997), on which Chuck D

Chuck D

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 and Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...

 appear, and Revolution of the Cool (2005), which features the documentary Coming From The Soul. He has also appeared on Public Enemy's There's a Poison Goin' On

There's a Poison Goin' On

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(2004), Bootsy Collins

Bootsy Collins

William Earl "Bootsy" Collins is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk...

's Fresh Outta 'P' University

Fresh Outta 'P' University

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(1997), Confrontation Camp

Confrontation Camp

Confrontation Camp is an American rap rock group consisting of Kyle Jason and Public Enemy members Chuck D and Professor Griff. The group's debut album, Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, was released on Artemis Records on July 25, 2000.- Sources :*, Rolling Stone *[ Allmusic]*,...

's Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2000) and in the movies Bloom (2000), Lost Money (2001), Snitch in New York (2002), Dirty Shield (2003), God Fathers and Sons (2003), American Gangster

American Gangster

American Gangster is a 2007 American biographical crime film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Steve Zaillian. The film is based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning...

(2007), and The Quiet Arrangement (2009).

External links

• Official website