Jazz | Jim Gelcer

Jim Gelcer Jazz

Jim Gelcer (drums, vocals) has been called “a hidden jewel in the Canadian jazz landscape.” He is at home in an eclectic range of genres, from jazz and rock to klezmer and kirtan. He has worked with Lorne Lofsky, Reg Schwager, Paul Hoffert, Don Thompson, Russ Little, Terry Clarke, Pat LaBarbara, Guido Basso, Steve Wallace, Dave Young, John Sherwood, Nancy Walker, Richard Underhill, George Koller, and has toured with acts as diverse as Lee Aaron and the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band. Jim is also an accomplished composer, with numerous credits in television and film. His voice has been described as sounding “like Chet Baker with edge”.

COMING IN 2018 – JIM AND PAUL PLAY GLENN AND LUDWIG: New release from the JIM GELCER / PAUL HOFFERT TRIO. Jazz interpretations of Glenn Gould’s Beethoven repertoire. With GEORGE KOLLER (double bass) and special guest BILL MCBIRNIE (flute). For more info click here

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Melodies Pure and True

Jim Gelcer is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, singer, yogi and in-demand collaborator who’s performed and recorded with many high-profile artists. On this album, Gelcer teams up with two of Canada’s jazz icons to pay homage to the pop soul classics that influenced and shaped the artist he is today – global in style, popular in nature, fat and funky in tone.

"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 first 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

“Lilting and swinging, Gelcer sings with a purity of tone, a resonant vocal aesthetic and a deeply embedded rhythmic sensibility…a joyous soundtrack for all the groovy, funky and glorious moments of your life.”