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 with a story telling bent. Of the unusual title, Jayme has this
to say: "Why does it have to be a crisis? My journey to mid life has
been a wonderful process of maturity, wisdom, creativity and freedom."
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
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