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Melodies From The Outskirts

Jay Crocker - Melodies From the Outskirts CD cover In the summer of 2003, while taking a break from his jazz studies at Mount Royal College in Calgary, guitarist and songwriter Jay Crocker began drafting the idea of scoring large scale arrangements to his "melting pot" style of songwriting. After a year of intense writing and soul searching, he emerged with a selection of tunes arranged for a ten piece band, ready to be recorded and shared. The result was Melodies From The Outskirts, an eight-song avant-garde, indie pop, afro jazz album which represents a new stage in the maturing of Jay's performance and arranging ideas and abilities.

Melodies is a natural step in Jay's musical journey, which began in his early teens when he joined the school band playing trumpet, and continued when he bought his first pawnshop guitar at 14. Crocker hasn't looked back. He has gained notice as a sideman with such artists as Damo Suzuki, Lorrie Matheson, and Tariq, but is perhaps best known as the guitarist and vocalist for the band Recipe From A Small Planet. With this ensemble, Crocker toured Canada extensively after finishing high school, playing just over 900 shows to packed rooms and festivals across the country, and sharing bills with such artists as Chris Brown and Kate Fenner, and Medeski, Martin & Wood.

From the Hawaiian soundscape of "Wake Up Honolulu" to the rust-tinged stomp of "Wooden Tin" and the acoustic sweetness of "Paper Thin", Melodies From The Outskirts has a sound full of soul, angles, roots, grit, and heart.

Jawin' About Jay (Press)

Exclaim! has nice stuff to say about the record in their May 2006 edition

Jason Schneider (yes, one of the "Have Not Been The Same" writers") talks to Jay for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record in March 2006

Chart Action

Melodies from the Outskirts spent six weeks in the Top 30 at CIUT in Toronto, topped the jazz chart at CKXU in Lethbridge, and also made the charts at CFBX in Kamloops, CHUO in Ottawa, CJSW in Calgary, CKLU in Sudbury, and CKMS in Waterloo.

Track Listings

Wooden Tin
Eramosa Rd.
Strong Arm Down
Iceman
Dead Birds
Paper Thin
Somewhere Between Good and Evil
Wake Up Honolulu

All songs written and arranged by Jay Crocker.

Featuring Steve Fletcher (organist/keyboardist), Chris Dadge (drums), Howie Woiwod (trumpet), Andrew Blizzard (baritone sax), Gareth Hughes (sax), Dan Michaels (sax), Rod Tate (trombone), Scott Munro (bass), and guitarist Ian Jarvis (guitar).

Engineered and produced by Lorrie Matheson at Artunit Studios in 2005. Artwork by Pablo Rafael Puentes.

You can purchase the CDs online from Saved By Radio
or contact our distributor, Outside Music.



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