Artist: Jim Gelcer
Title: Melodies Pure and True
Genre: Folk / Acoustic / Covers
Label: Indie
Jim Gelcer: Vocals, Drums
Reg Schwager: Guitar George Koller: Bass
"It's a very easy groove all the way through... A good addition to the Canadian jazz universe!"
- John Devenish, Host: Dinner Jazz 6 to 9pm, Mon-Fri, JAZZ.FM91
“Love it to bits. Beautiful stuff.”
- Penny Barr, Senior Artist/Designer, The Globe and Mail
“Great recording!”
- Lauren Hancock, programmer, Tonic/CBC Radio 2, CBC jazz streams
Brimming with musical influences as diverse as the exotic places he’s called home, Jim Gelcer hit the North American scene at age eighteen and has not looked back. He was seduced by the township energies of his father’s South African home, drawn by his mother’s Middle Eastern mysticism and came to that table with more than a dollop of his own brand of jazz, funk, and soul. The result is a heady amalgam of old world devotion and new age syncopation, music for the 21st century.
Gelcer is a multi-instrumentalist and singer, an in-demand collaborator who’s performed and recorded with other artists at the top of their game, people like Paul Ho ert, John Switzer and Richard Underhill, to name a few. Gelcer rocks on piano, guitar, harmonium, and vocals but his musical through-line has always been percussion. And as a timekeeper, Gelcer is second to none on djembe, cajon, dumbek or a standard drum kit.
“The album title ... gets right to the essence of Gelcer’s latest recording. Depending only on Reg Schwager on guitar and George Koller on bass (while Gelcer performs the very rare feat - in jazz, at least - of accompanying himself on drums), his vocal interpretations of classic pop tunes from the ‘60s and ‘70s show why we all loved these songs in the rst place.With masterful singers like Gelcer finding new ways to present these old songs, these melodies will indeed always be with us - pure and true.” - Mark Rheaume, CBC Radio
http://jimgelcerjazz.com/
https://twitter.com/jimgelcer
https://www.facebook.com/jgelcer
Title: Melodies Pure and True
Genre: Folk / Acoustic / Covers
Label: Indie
Jim Gelcer: Vocals, Drums
Reg Schwager: Guitar George Koller: Bass
"It's a very easy groove all the way through... A good addition to the Canadian jazz universe!"
- John Devenish, Host: Dinner Jazz 6 to 9pm, Mon-Fri, JAZZ.FM91
“Love it to bits. Beautiful stuff.”
- Penny Barr, Senior Artist/Designer, The Globe and Mail
“Great recording!”
- Lauren Hancock, programmer, Tonic/CBC Radio 2, CBC jazz streams
Brimming with musical influences as diverse as the exotic places he’s called home, Jim Gelcer hit the North American scene at age eighteen and has not looked back. He was seduced by the township energies of his father’s South African home, drawn by his mother’s Middle Eastern mysticism and came to that table with more than a dollop of his own brand of jazz, funk, and soul. The result is a heady amalgam of old world devotion and new age syncopation, music for the 21st century.
Gelcer is a multi-instrumentalist and singer, an in-demand collaborator who’s performed and recorded with other artists at the top of their game, people like Paul Ho ert, John Switzer and Richard Underhill, to name a few. Gelcer rocks on piano, guitar, harmonium, and vocals but his musical through-line has always been percussion. And as a timekeeper, Gelcer is second to none on djembe, cajon, dumbek or a standard drum kit.
“The album title ... gets right to the essence of Gelcer’s latest recording. Depending only on Reg Schwager on guitar and George Koller on bass (while Gelcer performs the very rare feat - in jazz, at least - of accompanying himself on drums), his vocal interpretations of classic pop tunes from the ‘60s and ‘70s show why we all loved these songs in the rst place.With masterful singers like Gelcer finding new ways to present these old songs, these melodies will indeed always be with us - pure and true.” - Mark Rheaume, CBC Radio
http://jimgelcerjazz.com/
https://twitter.com/jimgelcer
https://www.facebook.com/jgelcer
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