His style evolved from pure blues roots into a soul-jazz-funk feeling with strong blues influences, exploring and presenting the roots of this great music. He is a performer who never gives less than everything he has each time he takes the stage. Over twenty five years of touring, recording and surviving in the music business ensure that his soul has stories to tell filled with the blues as well
as humor. Since 1995 he has been discovering genres that are closely connected with the blues and has been naturally mixing them to create new flavors on stage. The 45 year old multi instrumentalist, composer and producer gives his heart, mind and soul to his music. He started his professional career as a bass player, something which has stayed with him on the keyboard, giving funky, left-hand chops that even bass players marvel at. His music closely follows the tradition of the great Hammond organ combos (such as Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith, Richard Groove Holmes etc), walking a thin line between blues and jazz. Since 2014 he has been cooperating with Austrian producer and trombone player, Paul Zauner with whom he has done many shows and made Passau, Germany, his half home. Jan has been touring and performing with various international artists such as Chris Cain, Carlos Johnson, Chanda Rule, George Freeman, David Murray, Kirk Lightsey, Lorenzo Thompson, Eb Davis, Sharon Lewis, John Lee Sanders, Jean Toussaint, Chick Willis, Dwight Trible, George Freeman, Najponk, to name just a few. Jan Korinek was also a guest of several groups, for instance The Kinsey Report, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and he has appeared on numerous studio recordings as well. He played at numerous major European jazz festivals, such as Inntoene Jazz, Alfa Jazz Festival, BluesAlive Sumperk, Vienna Blues Festival, Prague International Jazz Festival, Usti Jazz-Blues Festival, Blues Train Festival, Maastricht Music Festival, Bioblues and many others. Besides focusing on his bands, Jan has been running his own recording studio called Reel Blues Studio and produced and released numerous records under his record label, BlackTown Records.
