By Paul Schraub, shot on location at Sunset Beach State Park in Aptos, California
Art Direction and Design
By Sandy Frye
Produced
By Jayme Kelly Curtis
Jayme plays a Larrivee OM-09 acoustic guitar with Elixir Light Guage Strings and a custom Tony Graziano baritone ukulele in open A tuning (AEAC# low to high).
Mid Life Chrysalis
Jayme's third studio effort, Mid Life Chrysalis features 12 original
songs about the process to maturity, wisdom, creativity and freedom.
"Subversively sexy" says songwriter Chris Kee
of the Houston Jones Band
Mid Life Chrysalis features performances by steel guitarist Patti Maxine, ukulelist Ukulele Dick, violinist Autumn
Hancock, percussionist Rhan Wilson,
guitar and mandolinist Topher
Gayle, drummer Jim Norris, and piper Radim Zenkl. Pete Solomon
provides tenor and soprano sax, bass is by Matt Bohn, baritone guitar by
Phil Campbell,
cello and tabla by Barry
Phillips, English Horn by Shelley
Phillips. Mark Van Ness plays electric guitar on Many
Seasons Ago, Shiloh Hellman plays electric guitar on Sleeping
With Cats. The And Friends Band rings in on
Losing Lovers to Barleycorn, with Annie Aronson on
percussion, Mark Varner on bass, Patrick Weldon
on Dobro® and Phil Cambell on mandolin.
View lyrics here
in Three Moods
"Sugar & Sand is full-out, pure passion. Jayme Kelly
Curtis's vocals give a ton of heart to the songs and the music adds
flesh to that passion, emphasizing the tones of each mood."
Paul
de Bruijn, Rambles
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Jayme's second solo CD, Sugar And Sand features outstanding
performances by such acoustic heavyweights as mandolinist/ piper Radim Zenkl, violinist Autumn
Hancock, and percussion wizard Rick Walker.
The CD features 12 original songs in three genre, each brought to life
by the Bay Area's best players: Walter Bankovitch, piano; Jack
Marshall and Mimi Hills, bass; George Demarest, trumpet and
flugelhorn; Carol McComb,
Dobro®, Jeff "Felonius Smith," National Steel Guitar; and Mark
"Fenny" Fenichel, harmonica. Electric guitar legend Dave Meniketti shreds it up on
a straight ahead blues.
Sugar & Sand is divided into three chapters that flow
smoothly from rock to blues to Jayme's own folkloric jazz ballads,
showing off her powerful, earthy voice in all its many colors
Sugar & Sand was recorded, mixed and mastered by
Justin Mayer at Bear
Creek Recording Studio in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The CD was
recorded digitally with Digital Performer. Jayme's lead vocals were
recorded live with no edits using a Neuman U87 microphone. Walter
Bankovitch's piano tracks, Dave Meniketti's shred guitar on Earthquake,
and some
of Radim Zenkl's tracks were recorded at the Space Station in Santa
Clara, California. Mimi Hills' bass track and Carol McComb's Dobro®
track were recorded at Carol's Casa Con Corazon Studio in Woodside,
California.
Photography
By Paul Schraub in his studio in Santa Cruz, California
and on location at Sunset Beach State Park in Aptos, California
Art Direction and Design
By Sandy Frye
Produced
By Jayme Kelly Curtis
Gear
Jayme plays a Larrivee OM-09 acoustic
guitar with Elixir Light Guage Strings. In concert, Jayme uses an
LR Baggs Ribbon pickup.
All songs © 2004 Jayme Kelly Curtis/PurrGirl® Music (ASCAP)
Photography
By Dave Lepori, San Jose, California
Recorded and Mixed At the Space Station , Santa Clara, California by Dave Meniketti
Dave Says:
• All tracks recorded direct to
ADAT XT-20's (at 20 bit resolution) through Millenia Media
HV-3 preamps
• Mixed through a 32 channel Soundcraft Ghost console
• Acoustic Guitars & percussion recorded with a combo of Neumann 184's & B&K 4006 mics
• Vocals recorded with either a Neumann TLM-103 or CAD VX-2 tube mic & compressed with a Distressor EL-8 and/or RNC compressors
• Digital reverbs, effects, etc, using various Lexicon, Roland & Alesis fx units. Monster Cable & Mogami mic cables & interconnects used throughout
• Mixed to a Panasonic SV-3700 DAT & pre-mastered at 24bit/96KHz resolution through Samplitude 24/96 Digital Audio Workstation
In A Rushing Stream
Released in 1999, Jayme's debut CD, In A Rushing Stream, has
won favorable reviews and international airplay, and took top honors in
the Best Music You Never Heard show on KGO Radio, San Francisco. The CD
was engineered by rock legend Dave Meniketti at the Space Station, and
includes performances by a host of the Bay Area's best musicians.
"I received your album this morning and just finished listening to it
all in one shot. You did a great job on the album (as opposed to a few
songs and filler.) It comes across as very successfully done as a
whole. I'll air this next Saturday night on my station and
probably play cuts 1-4 the first week. I want the listeners to hear the
ideas and feelings as you planned them on the album. It feels good. Let
me know when your next one is released."
Jack "Sandman" Garrison WFIT FM, Melbourne, Florida
The Line Up
In A Rushing Stream features
performances by guitarist Bruce Argyle, pianist Walter Bankovitch
(Sharp 9, Full Spectrum Jazz, the Mike Cohen Sextet, Oakland
Jazz Choir), Global Accordion Ambassador Barbara Ann Barnett
(Sagebrush Swing, Belle Beaucoup), percussionist Jimmy Biala,
Winfield Fingerpicking Champion Rolly
Brown, bassists Lisa Burns
(Sidesaddle & Co.),
Preston Carter (Sharp 9, Vocal Flight, Ellen Silva & Friends),
and Myron Dove (Santana, and many more), guitarist Bill Horvitz,
violinist Tony Marcus (Cats & Jammers, Cheap Suit Serenaders,
Arkansas Sheiks, Frank Wakefield Band), Bay Area rock legend Dave Meniketti(Y&T), and
Celtic
harpist Midyne Spear.
Produced
By Jayme Kelly Curtis and Dave Meniketti
Gear
Jayme plays a Larrivee OM-09 acoustic
guitar with Elixir Light Guage Strings. In concert, Jayme uses a
Baggs Ribbon Pickup.
View lyrics here
All songs © 1999 Jayme
Kelly Curtis/PurrGirl® Music (ASCAP)
Jayme uses and endorses Elixir®
Light
Guage Guitar Strings Visit CD Baby now to hear clips and order!