The Denver Gentlemen

An organization that seemed sadly destined to cult-band obscurity, without business recordings to record among the 1st musical projects from the performers whose exclusive genius would later on flower in to the hauntingly surreal Americana of 16 Hp and Thin Cessna’s Auto Golf club, the recordings from the Denver Gentlemen were unceremoniously shelved and hung in limbo for five years before ever seeing standard release. At that time, however, the music group had very long since split up, departing the inquisitive to pour over their dropped ultimate goal of encoded American Gothic affectations and question that which was and what may have been. A puzzling and otherworldly mixture of outdated period jazz, gospel, cabaret, Acadian, nation, and Western european folk, the Denver Gentlemen was shaped in 1988 by vocalist Jeffrey-Paul Norlander (ultimately shortened to Jeffrey-Paul) and David Eugene Edwards in Denver, CO. Following a short sojourn to LA, the duo would go back to Denver with Frenchman Jen-Yves Tola in tow. Slim Cessna, currently in Denver, was following to join. Sadly, although this first lineup would serve as an ideological and stylistic homeland because of their upcoming musical explorations, they wouldn’t stay united for lengthy. After a exciting but short-lived romp through Denver’s burgeoning substitute country picture, the band begun to splinter off to check out their own exclusive muses. By 1992, Edwards and Tola will be operating a influx of important acclaim following release from the first 16 Hp album, Cessna got departed to create Slim Cessna’s Car Membership, and Jeffrey-Paul was still left to get the parts with Jon Stubbs, Tag McCoin, Valerie Ferry and David Wiley. Still, these were in a position to follow the initial eyesight unabated, with Jeffrey-Paul leading his newly-fashioned staff into the documenting studio room to bang out that which was to become their debut discharge, live to tape, one evening in 1995. Nevertheless strong the outcomes, whenever a record offer was gradual in arriving, Jeffrey-Paul disbanded the Denver Gentlemen and became a member of up along with his previous music group mates in 16 Hp. Using the band’s renowned position building, Absalom information would unearth the get good at tapes and prepared Presenting… for discharge in Dec of 2000 to favorably glowing testimonials. With Jeffrey-Paul once again a free of charge agent, having still left 16 Hp to spend additional time with his family members, he begun to reassemble the Denver Gentlemen and enjoy shows across the Denver region, assisting to dispel a number of the rumours surrounding their star along the way.