Brand New Key
Year Released: 2025 | Record Label: Café Pacific Records
PERSONNEL: Jeffrey Gimble: vocals; Josh Nelson, piano & organ; Larry Koonse, acoustic guitar; Dan Lutz, electric bass; Dan Schnelle, drums; Talley Sherwood, sfx & engineer.
"Gimble's dark, richly emotional vocal molasses warms the heart and soothes the soul."
— Jonathan Widran, JW Vibe
"Gimble truly delivers... with a relaxed, rhythmic and jovial approach."
— j. poet, Downbeat
"Jeffrey Gimble has it. Highly clever reads of well-known and obscure covers."
—George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly
Beyond Up High
Year Released: 2013 | Record Label: Café Pacific Records
PERSONNEL: Jeffrey Gimble: vocals; Tamir Hendelman: piano; Ryan McGillicuddy: bass; Bob Sheppard: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone; Dean Koba: drums; Zach Harmon: drums (4-6, 10).
"A cause for celebration!"
— Jack Goodstein, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Here is a hip vocalist that delivers like a closing reliever. Lots of variety and keeps you guessing with his changes of speed."
— George Harris, Jazz Weekly
"Beyond Up High presents a well-performed introduction to an artist with significant talent and flair."
—Nick Mondello, All About Jazz
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Biography
Jeffrey’s newest recording “Brand New Key” (2025) celebrates songs from the 60s and 70s reimagined for a modern jazz sensibility, coupled with a clever handful of rare standards and bossas. Produced, arranged, piano & organ by LA great Josh Nelson alongside noted guitarist Larry Koonse, bassist Dan Lutz and drummer Dan Schnelle, the recording was listed as one of the top 10 Vocal Jazz Albums of 2025 (UK’s BeBop Spoken Here).
His first recording “Beyond Up High” (2013) produced by Mark Winkler with piano and arrangements by Tamir Hendelman was called “An auspicious debut jazz album” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), “One of the best for 2013” (Critical Jazz) and “A new male voice terrific in style, swing and swagger” (All About Jazz).
APPEARANCES
Gigs include performances at Catalina Jazz Club, Temecula’s Jazz at the Merc series, Club 1881, Vitello’s, the West Hollywood Summer Sounds series, Vicky’s of Santa Fe, Urban Press Winery and the LAX Radisson’s “Jazz at the RAD” series, to name a few.
Publicity photos by Robbie Jeffers. Concert photos by Craig Allyn Photo and L. Aviva Diamond.