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Jed Danyel Kurzel (born 1976) is an Australian singer-songwriter-guitarist and film composer. He is a founding member of The Mess Hall, a blues rock duo. His older brother Justin Kurzel is a film director and screenwriter. Kurzel was born in 1976 and, with his older brother Justin Kurzel (born 1974), grew up in Gawler, South Australia. Their father, Zdzislaw Kurzel (1946–2006), was from Poland and had migrated to Australia in 1960, where he became a taxi driver. In the 1990s Kurzel moved to Sydney, where Justin was studying at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). In 2001 Kurzel on...

JED from Aberdeen, WA original hard rock band now performing in support of their third full length CD, Synesthesia, recorded at Oceanside Recording, with Brian Smith Producer and Jack Endino mixing. Synesthesia is evidence that after ten years and running, JED continues to generate multi-faceted compositions that challenge and break away from the typical verse-chorus formulas of mainstream rock music, while maintaining radio appeal. JED’s artistry delves beyond the realms of the everyday & the mundane, into fresh & enigmatic dimensions. Synesthesia offers music and a message that is darkly grooving, intense, melodic, and dynamically & stylistically contrasting enough to...

The Technical Jed (From Wikipedia) The Technical Jed was a rock band from Richmond, Virginia. The band started when Daniel Bartels and David Bush, who were working together at an oriental carpet store, asked Clancy Fraher and Steve Brooking to join them. Fraher taught Bartels some open tunings on his new telecaster, then promptly left the country to explore Europe for a month. When Fraher returned, Daniel had begun creating his own musical vocabulary that was later crucial in setting this band apart from the typical 2-guitar bands of the day. Many reviewers likened them to Tom Verlaine and Richard...

Jedi Knights is the neo-electro alias for Mark Pritchard and Tom Middleton, best known as Global Communication AKA Reload & E621, Secret Ingredients, Link & E621, and The Chameleon. Jedi Knights first appeared on the Clear Label with their "May the Funk Be With You" EP and later releasing the "New School Science" LP on their own "Evolution/Universal Language" Records Label. They did remixes as Jedi Knights for Bomb the Bass (2 remixes of "Absorber"), Model 500 ("The Flow"), and a brilliant remix of "Antacid" by their Link & E621 alter ego. Upon remixing Depeche Mode's "Home" under their Jedi...

Family members Laura Stitt and her two cousins, Danny and Shannon Stitt have over time created one of Australia's most exciting up and coming Funk/Soul acts, “Uncle Jed”. With Danny (Bass) and Shannon (Keys) growing up on the north coast with a lifestyle of surfing and skating, the boys found a passion for jazz and funk music passed on by their musical Dad and after hearing their cousin Laura sing for the first time on a family holiday it created a dream they had to pursue of one day moving to Sydney and starting a band together. Laura would find...