Urban jazz is the fusion of smooth jazz and R&B/hip-hop music. Urban jazz usually contains strong R&B percussion and bass lines. A few of the better known urban jazz artists are Boney James, Ronny Jordan, Nick Colionne, Wayman Tisdale, Najee, and Paul Jackson, Jr.

Some of the more successful releases in this genre have been more creative while other more laidback releases have struggled. One release Hidden Beach Unwrapped featured Paul Jackson, Jr., Mike Phillips, and vocalists covering Notorious BIG and other hip hop acts. This led to a series of imitation releases including the Streetwize.

A genre that is definitely growing, urban jazz has an increasing audience on non conventional radio, TV and especially the internet. More recent projects like DefJazz, and jazz's convergence with drum machines and rhythms at times help project this genre toward a younger audience.

Indra Lesmana (born March 28, 1966 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian jazz pianist.

He was introduced to jazz music by his father, Jack Lesmana, who is also a jazz musician. His musical career with keyboards instrument started at age 10. He first performed with his father in March 1976 in Bandung.

In 1978, he went to Australia with his father to perform at cultural event of the ASEAN Trade Fair. During the stay his father encouraged Indra to take a qualification test at the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music. He passed the test and was accepted at the school.

In 1981, both he and his father formed a band called Jack and Indra Lesmana Quartet with Jack Lesmana, Karim Suweileh and James Morrison. They took a recording session during their visit in Indonesia in the same year and dealt with Queen Record to release the record called “Children of Fantasy“.

When he returned to Australia, he formed a Latin jazz fusion band with Jack Lesmana, Steve Brien, Dale Barlow, Tony Thijssen and Harry Rivers called “Children of Fantasy“. The band visited Indonesia in August 1982 to work on their tours.

Be with Me is a 2005 Singaporean drama film directed by Eric Khoo. The film is inspired by the life of deaf-and-blind teacher Theresa Poh Lin Chan. It premiered as the Director's Fortnight selection in the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. It was also the official entry from Singapore for the 78th Academy Awards in the foreign language category. In December 2005, the Academy body disqualified the film on grounds that the dialogue is mainly in English. Out of 93 minutes, the film only has two and a half minutes of dialogue.

Be with Me is the first film in Singapore to explicitly feature a lesbian relationship.^{[citation needed]}

Krzysztof Urbanski - born in Pabianice, Poland in 1982.

Chief Conductor: Trondheim Symfoniorkester

Music Director: Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (from 2011/12)

He graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in 2007, the year that he won First Prize of the Prague Spring International Conducting Competition.

Assistant Conductor at the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra (2007–2009)

Chief Conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra (from 2010/11 season)

Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (from 2011/12 season)

Adjunct Professor of music in the area of orchestral conducting in Indiana University (from Oct 2010)

At the start of the 2010/11 season, Krzysztof Urbański became Chief Conductor of Trondheim Symfoniorkester having been appointed only a week after his highly successful debut with the orchestra in September 2009. In addition, he takes up the position of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s seventh Music Director in September 2011, and at age 28, is currently the youngest music director among major orchestras in the United States.