Singer-songwriter & guitarist Jim Vick performs regularly on the south Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, in and around the popular ecotourism and surfing town of Puerto Viejo, Limon, along with occasional U.S. and Costa Rica touring. His multi-looping one man jam band, jim vick's BIG MIX, stirs up classic covers and originals on Tuesday nights at La Costa de Papito in Cocles Beach - now in its third year running.
Jim's newest album, PUNTA RASTA, combines the reggae and calypso sounds of the Caribbean with bluesy guitar, Latin jazz, Afropop, and strains of Appalachian folk in a musical "rondon" stew that one fan calls "Latin Americana." Still in the works are BHAKTI BLUE, his album of songs based on the poetry of Rumi, and STRINGS AND WOOD, a mostly acoustic solo album.
"Jim Vick's creative fusion of jazz-rock, folk, ethnic, and pop elements makes for some of the most refreshingly vital music to appear in sometime . . . a songwriter unafraid to take risks with both words and music." - Tom Bingham, OP Magazine
"an eclectic blend of folky jazz with a solid dose of world rhythms" - Kenny Hart, The Singing Songwriter and Indie-Music.com
"the thinking man's jamband" - Chris Armodida, Gida-Folk
