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Jayme's third full-length CD of original songs,
Mid Life Chrysalis, is now available. Clips can be heard at http://cdbaby.com/cd/jayme3

Jayme's second release, Sugar & Sand, earned glowing reviews from press and DJ's.

Kevan Breitinger, a reviewer for Indie-Music.com, said "She alchemizes her own stories into songs that are at once bold and dreamy, pristine little gems of great nuance. ... Immediately noticeable is Curtis' excellent voice quality, crisp enough to lacerate, as well as the top-notch quality of the musicianship. ...It's in the third portion of the album [Sugar & Sand], dedicated to "Folkloric Jazz," that Curtis' powers truly shine, and she is altogether captivating when she's found her groove. Each of the five songs offered in this segment sparkle with excellence. Curtis seems most in her element in this genre, her phrasing intelligent, her potent imagery emotive and on the mark. ...I think Curtis may have gone and created her own genre, and she owns it masterfully. Just beauteous."

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"Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jayme Kelly Curtis breaks the mold. Her crisp, clear voice refreshes the bluesy folk traditions she draws upon, sliding from a purr to a growl like nobody’s business. A storyteller extraordinaire, she alchemizes her personal experiences into modern archetypal myths with bold, poetic lyrics that go straight for the heart. Likewise, her musical flair is deeply nuanced. Sometimes ethereal, even New Agey, at other times lowdown and nitty gritty, each song enters new terrain or infuses old ground with new blood."
Andrea Perkins, Metro Santa Cruz, December 27, 2000

Influences

Cat Stevens,Joni Mitchell,Bonnie Raitt,Patty Larkin

Bio

Curtis hit the road at age 14, shunning high school to live in an artist’s community and study fingerstyle guitar with Rolly Brown, a student of the legendary Reverend Gary Davis. (Brown later went on to win the National Fingerpicking Championship title in Winfield, KS in 1980.)

Drifting west to Southern Colorado, Curtis earned local recognition with several rock bands, through her solo act, and as part of an acoustic duo. Her deep interest in blues and jazz lead to a five year stint at the Iron Springs Chateau Melodrama Theatre, where she absorbed the standard jazz repertoire and began perfecting her deep, sultry vocal style.

Curtis cobbled together an education, immersing herself in art history and anthropology at Pikes Peak Community College, music theory and poetry at Colorado College, and film and television production at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She eventually earned a Master's degree in mass communication from the University of Denver, then turned her attention to the new mythology evolving from Northern California's booming computer industry.

"My goal as a songwriter is to create images that resonate strongly in the listener's mind where they can be freely interpreted through the lens of the listener's own experiences," says Curtis. "I try to place my personal experiences and snippets of stories into the framework of archetypal themes and mythologies. I try to use metaphor and imagery to move my subjects away from their narcissistic