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Jim Goetsch
Sax & synth player mixing jazz, electronic music and contemporary classical
About Me
The music of Jim Goetsch is the product of a widely divergent background that includes extensive jazz experience
on saxophone, performance of avant garde classical works, tours with blues legend Albert King and Senegalese
griot Mor Thiam as well a long history of performing electronic music in the Los Angeles area. His release with
Baker's Brew “New Works” on his Psychosomatic Records label that is a mixture of avant jazz with electronic music
has been hailed as “An Album of the Future” by the Italian magazine JAZZit.
He currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is primarily engaged in two projects at this time.
The first is Present Moment, an experimental jazz ensemble that includes guitarist Mustafa Stefan Dill, bassist Kim
Stone and drummer Dave Wayne. In 2025 the group released first album, “Now”, on Psychosomatic Records.
The second project is Double Image, a solo effort that is Jim’s electronic music alter ego. This project has recently
produced the album “Electronic Landscapes”, a mix that includes ambient music, electronic jazz, modern classical
and other elements that is intended to be presented live through a surround sound system.
Jim is also the music director of the Avant Jazz Workshop, a coalition of Santa Fe jazz artists that are committed to
expanding jazz into new territory. This group has created Avant Jazz Workshop Series at Entropy Gallery in Santa
Fe to give a platform for local artists doing new creative work from roots in the jazz idiom.
