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Shmeisani Jazz Massive

Active since: 2025

Shmeisani Jazz Massive (SJM) is an Amman-based contemporary jazz collective featuring Azar (drums), John (bass), Omar (keys), and Archie (guitar).

The project brings together musicians shaped by decades of listening across jazz, groove, and experimental music, united through a shared commitment to collective improvisation. Their self-titled debut album was recorded during the group’s first sessions together, capturing the emergence of a musical language in real time.

Recorded in a basement studio in Shmeisani, one of Amman’s most distinctive artistic neighborhoods, the album is rooted in place, immediacy, and interaction. The result is a sound that moves between groove, atmosphere, and tension — contemporary jazz built on ensemble intuition rather than fixed structure.

Shmeisani Jazz Massive

By Shmeisani Jazz Massive

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Fly; Jamal; True Fire; Pillow Talk; As War Starts!; Snorting Lava; Primal Steps; The Snails March.

Shmeisani Jazz Massive: Shmeisani Jazz Massive

by Blue Summers
April 25, 2026

Jazz is alive and living in Jordan. Shmeisani Jazz Massive is an Amman-based band, but do not expect much in the way of local musical influences (not that that would be a bad thing). These guys would sound at home in any American jazz club.  The core band consists of Motassem Azar ("Azar") on drums, John McKay ("John") on ...