Kiboud Maulana is Indonesia's top jazz and blues guitarist and one of its most successful band leaders. Born into a musical family (his brother Ireng, also a guitarist, runs the annual Jakarta Jazz Festival) he trained originally as a classical violinist.

His Jakarta All Stars group is widely regarded as the best jazz group in Indonesia and has been invited several times to play at the biggest festival in Europe, the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. In 1997 he was invited to play on the Miles Davis stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, the oldest festival in Europe. He has led numerous bands over many years, and has played at jazz festivals in Germany, Holland, Singapore and Malaysia.

He plays a wide ranging set of guitar styles from mainstream jazz to Spanish, blues and fusion. To appeal to wider Indonesian tastes and also those of expatriates, he formed the successful Kiboud Maulana Blues Band in 1993.

He has performed long term engagements overseas in Hawaii and the other parts of the U.S., Singapore and Malaysia, and has appeared in most of the 5 star hotels in Jakarta.

He is also well known on television and radio and as a composer of film scores.

Regular gig: Every Wednesday: Kiboud and Ireng Maulana at The Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel, Jalan H.R.Rasuna Said, Jakarta, from 8.30pm

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Contact Kiboud (Mobile) :(62)0816 828567

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