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Jim Mertz

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JM releases - I Give It All To You - Make The Best of It - Instrumentals for Meditation, Healing and Peace - Psalms (Vol. 1)

	Just released - H.G. Filled (gospel rap) "The Eleventh Hour" (mastering, engineer, arranging, co-produced "Uppa Room," "Take It Away," "Suffer The Children"). I was greatly blessed working on this! Click on this link to check out the video of the track "Loose and Bind."
	Camille Metoyer Moten's "Go Forward" - this uplifting CD features Camille's beautiful, classy voice accompanied by a stylistic mix of jazz, gospel and pop tracks and celebrates the love of Jesus Christ. Samples are on my listen page. There are 13 tracks, including a couple Andrae Crouch remakes - an African drum inspired "Take Me Back" and "Through It All" done with a jazz standard feel (with special guest, saxophonist, Chad Stoner). CDs are available at Parables (11212 Chicago Circle, 333-5570), Holland Performing Arts Gift Shop and on-line at www.cdbaby.com.
	Wes Hall "You Are The Money" CD audio book (3 CD set). Wes has some great testimonies of what God has done in his life! We had a very blessed time of fellowship in addition to recording the audio! He is currently being blessed with success as a keynote motivational speaker. He was mentored by motivational speaker Les Brown. You can find out more about Wes at his website - www.totallymotivated.com.
	I recently recorded a song "She Makes My Soul Smile" for the upcoming movie "For Love of Amy" recorded with movie producer/actor/writer Vince Alston. Vince also wrote the song and sang it! He had me arrange the track and we recorded it and produced it here.
	My best selling CD continues to be "I Give It All To You" - samples from each track are on my listen page. It includes special guest contributions from anointed instrumentalists Chad Stoner (sax) and Terence Bailey (guitar) - and several anointed vocalists - my wife, Susie, David Newson, JMH, Elaine Stoner, Camille Metoyer Moten, my daughter, Melody, and gospel rapper H.G. Filled.
	My most current release is titled "Instrumentals for Meditation, Healing, and Peace". The music was inspired by the Psalms and is an extension of the "Psalms" project. I pray that it will provide for the listener exactly what the title says!
	Also available is the Psalms (Vol. 1 - Ps. 1-30) CD, a collaboration with Lanette Moore. Lanette is reading the Psalms and I composed music as the Psalms ministered to me to accompany her anointed reading. More detailed info and samples are on the Psalms page on this site.
	There are also listening samples for my "Make The Best Of It" CD on the listen page, which includes an instrumental remake of Earth, Wind & Fire's "That's The Way Of The World." This CD features special guests Jeff Coffin (saxophonist with the 2007 Grammy Award winning group, Bela Fleck), guitarist Ron Cooley (Fresh Air/Manheim Steamroller), trumpeter Mike Gurciullo and JMH.

all of my CD releases are available at all of my live performances

if you email me at mertzjim@cox.net, I'll make arrangements to get you what you need

($10 each, which includes NE sales tax - add $2 per CD to ship)

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Listed below are some additional completed projects - it was a great blessing for me to be involved with all of these projects and I have greatly enjoyed the fellowship time while working together with each of these artists, groups, and friends throughout the recording process!

	Chad Stoner (gospel saxophonist)- "I Know It's You"
	Steve Raybine (jazz vibraphonist) - "Bad Kat Karma" (co-produced 4 tracks - "Indigo Night" featuring Chad Stoner and Rick Braun, "Breckenridge Blue" also featuring Chad, the grooving latin jazz single "Cha Cha Cool," and "Second Chance")
	Gus McNair (gospel vocalist) - "My Personal Praise"
	SWG (David Newson, Terence Bailey, and David Bailey) smooth urban gospel - "Revelation" a 4 song EP
	Powerklutch Productions - "Life, Love and God - Part 1" (instrumental single "Ain't Nobody Like Jesus")
	Powerklutch Productions - "Life, Love and God - Part 2" (2 tracks)
	Preach (gospel rap) - "My Mission"
	St. Andrew's Choir - "Higher Praise"
	Kristen Howard - "Kristen Howard"
	Ann Carter - "Conducting Class From The Crib with Mya"

That's all for now -

Much Love, Grace and Peace!

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