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Jim Bish Discography of CDs
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Smarten Up CD (2004)
Jim Bish music CDs You could call Taxi Chain the quintessential bar band. There's no doubt that their music -- which skips freely from soul to Celtic, R&B to a kind of jazzy funk with a touch of swing along the way -- would go down well in a club. It's translating that to a studio record that's the problem. It's typified by the opening cut, "Memphis." The song itself is fine, a pastiche of Memphis soul. But in the studio, at least, the rhythm section drags, which stops the whole thing ...
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Victoria Day CD (2009)
Jim Bish CD discography Melissa McClelland is the wife of Canadian singer/songwriter Luke Doucet, guitarist for Sarah McLachlan's touring band. Like her husband's, McClelland's music is rootsy, with touches of blues, jazz, country, and folk-rock. Doucet produced this set, McClelland's third solo outing, and he brings the same attention to detail to his wife's work that he brings to his own studio efforts. All of McClelland's tunes have compelling melodies and a considerable lyrical flair. She opens the album with the laid-back rockabilly of "A Girl Can Dream," which, with its loping beat and Doucet's restrained solo, calls ...
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Cocktail: Shakin' And Stirred CD (1997)
Jim Bish albums Canada's champion of the lounge movement, Jaymz Bee & the Royal Jelly Orchestra has been releasing "cocktail" versions of contemporary pop and rock songs since the early 1990s for various Canadian independent labels. Cocktail: Shakin' and Stirred includes ultra-chic, glittery, and remarkably, utterly plastic versions of, among others, AOR rock classics such as "Takin' Care of Business" (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and "American Woman" (the Guess Who), and alternative rock favorites "You Oughta Know" (Alanis Morissette) and "Superman Song" (Crash Test Dummies). Like a desert-dry gin martini with green olives, Cocktail: Shakin' and Stirred is definitely ...
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Illuminated Journey CD
Jim Bish discography Recorded at Pizazzudio Studios, Toronto, Canada.
Personnel: Steve Middleton (acoustic guitar); Amy Sky (vocals); John Gulley (acoustic guitar, nylon-string guitar); Tim Johns (acoustic guitar); Michael Jack (electric guitar, keyboards); Kirk Elliott (dulcimer, celtic harp, sitar, violin, wooden flute); Jim Bish (flute, soprano saxophone); Lance Anderson (keyboards); Matthew Gerrard (fretless bass); Derrick Jaikaran (tabla).
Audio Mixer: Michael Jack.
Recording information: Power Plant (piano).
Personnel includes: Amy Sky (vocals); Steve Middleton, Tim Johns, John Culley (acoustic guitar); Michael Jack (electric guitar, keyboards); Kirk Elliott (sitar, dulcimer, violin, harp, wooden flute); Jim Bish (flute, sopranon saxophone); Lance Anderson (piano, keyboards); Ed ...
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 Jim Bish songs Worked With
Taxi Chain
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