Some people say that music is the language of the soul. Truly, there are certain moods that can be experienced out of music. Music plays an important role in everyone’s lives. In one way or another, certain music fits into the character and the uniqueness of an individual. Like language, music has different genres that represent a certain category and type. Each category has its own distinctive characteristic that distinguishes it from the others. Jazz is one of the music genres that greatly influenced a lot of people. One of these is an artist form Japan, Jun Seba.

Jun Seba is a Japanese national whose music has a strong cool jazz influence in it. He is more popularly known as Nujabes, which is just actually a combination of his first and last names spelled backwards. Nujabes is also a producer of Japanese hip-hop music. Aside from being a musician, Nujabes also owns an independent record label, which is known as Hyde-Out Productions. He has been patronizing music that has a strong jazz influence, which includes artists like, Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, and Yusef Lateef.
Nujabes mixes these tracks with instruments like saxophone, guitar, piano, and flute in order to produce a warmer and mellower track. The addition of these instruments makes his music a manifestation of jazz influence. Aside from being a DJ, Nujabes sometimes play for a live audience, but this is very seldom done. There is a certain mystery and enigma in his character that is also manifested in his abstract album track covers. This is probably one of the reasons why Nujabes has sold more than 20,000 copies of his album in 2004, which is very unlikely for an independent-release album to happen.
Aside from being an artist and a musician, he is also a businessman as displayed by his ownership of an indie record label, and a record store in Japan. He is the owner of Shibuya record store in Japan which houses most of his albums and the hip hop albums that his record label has produced. He has practically made his mark in the music industry, not only in Japan, but in other parts of the world as well.
One of his famous tracks Pray is a part of his album, Japanese Gangster. He has recorded this album together with another artist, Jay-Z. His top albums include: Modal Soul, Impression, and Metaphorical Music. All of these albums were successful which included some of its tracks in the top list. His album, Modal Soul was amazingly successful with more than 900,000 requests for play on air. Among his top tracks, Reflection Eternal tops the list with approximately 411 requests and listeners for the past six months. A lot of his tracks are gaining popularity in different radio stations and record stores. His works are also considered as background and soundtracks of an anime production in Japan. Practically, his music has touched a lot of people in one way or another, making him one of the most sought-after musicians in Japan.