Louie's Dream CD Release Celebration Dizzy's Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center Tuesday, April 9 Two Sets at 7:30 and 9:30pm
Eli Yamin, piano Evan Christopher, clarinet Nicki Parrot, bass LaFrae Sci, drums
The foundation of so much of America's popular music, the Blues is a much-loved art form. For those of you just starting out listening to the music, pianist and educator Eli Yamin takes you through the basics. Enjoy!
I am so excited to let you know that, in anticipation of our full CD Release, I Feel So Glad, on April 1, we have just released the single A Healing Song. Just click on the artwork above or right here to get yours.
We have been performing A Healing Song since 2001 when it premiered in Message From Saturn, the jazz musical by myself and Clifford Carlson. This is the FIRST TIME we have made A Healing Song available commercially. Wait until you HEAR it beautifully sung by the magnificent Kate McGarry, with the ever soulful Bob Stewart on tuba and the eternally swinging LaFrae Sci on drums. I'm tinkling the keys and we are laying it all down at Avatar in NYC. I can't wait for you to hear. Please don't delay and gets yours right now.
Stay tuned for more music. Love you madly and...
thanks,
Eli
Program: Monday-Saturday, February 21- 26 ::: Performances and Workshops
Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival
Moscow, Idaho
Monday-Friday, February 28-March 4 ::: Performances and Workshops
Guatemala International Jazz Festival
Guatemala City and Quetzaltenang, Guatemala
Monday, March 28 ::: Performance and Workshop
Jazz and Managing Autonomous, Flexible Teams
Co-produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and Fordham Graduate School of Business
Eli Yamin Jazz Quintet
Varis/Leichtman Recording Studio at Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, West 60th and Broadway, New York, NY
Monday, April 11 -- 2-5pm ::: Performance and Workshop
Jazz and Managing Autonomous, Flexible Teams
Co-produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and Fordham Graduate School of Business
Eli Yamin Jazz Quintet
Varis/Leichtman Recording Studio at Rose Hall Jazz at Lincoln Center, West 60th and Broadway, New York, NY
This is the Eli Yamin Blues Band playing After Hours by Avery Parish in New York City. Eli Yamin is on piano, Kate McGarry, voice, Bob Stewart, tuba and LaFrae Sci on drums.
TRACKS:
1. The Laboratory
2. It's Gonna Rain
3. The Storm
4. Turtle Trot
5. Cheetah Trot
6. Stampede, The Chase
7. Oath of Honor
8. Blues Interlude
9. There's Blue All Around Me-Predator
10. Blues Segue Into Sunrise
11. There's Blue All Around Me-Prey
12. Segue to Born Free
13. Bunny Entrance
14. Swinging On The Family Tree
15. Cheetah Overboard, Turtles Overboard
16. I See Blue
MUSICIANS:
Eli Yamin - piano
Mark McGowan - trumpet
Chris Byars - tenor saxophone/flute
Pat 'O Leary - bass
Stefan Schatz - drums
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Jazz Singers with Sofia D'Alessandro, Ariella De Los Santos, Daniel Epelbaum, Talia Fuchs, Raquel Klein, Anna Lentz, Isaac Lertola, Alice Markham-Cantor, Solomon McDougall, Jake Montagnino, Emma Orme, Nadege Philogene, Roselise Russo, Christina Santa Maria, Bolivia Williams
For more information and sound samples, please visit the official website: http://www.eliyamin.com/
The new season is upon us in New York and the world of music and education is heating up big time.
Stay tuned for details on the Nora's Ark CD Release Celebration on Wednesday, November 10th from 6:30-8:30pm. This, invitation only event, will be a milestone for the non profit I co-founded, The Jazz Drama Program. Please do let me know if you wish to attend.
In the meantime, I'd love to see you soon at one of our concerts on the tip of Manhattan if you can.
Here's a nice profile by Laura Gabby published in the uptown newspaper, Manhattan Times.
Also, my first published article on jazz education in this months "Chamber Music Magazine." It's called "Jazz Culture and Swing Rhythm." I'd love to know what you think...
Tuesday, September 28 -- 8:30 – 10:30pm ::: PERFORMANCE
BLUES, BEBOP & SWING
Eli Yamin, piano & vocal
Lakecia Benjamin, alto saxophone Indian Road Café
600 West 218th Street @ Indian Road, New York, NY 10034
Tel: 212-942-7451, http://www.indianroadcafe.com/
Tuesday, October 26 -- 8-10pm ::: PERFORMANCE
One World With Jazz
Daniel Pearl Music Days In honor of Daniel Pearl World Music Days, Eli Yamin and fellow U.S. cultural ambassadors present this cross cultural celebration of unity through music. We will be performing jazz arrangements of folk songs and stories from our travels all over the world. Featuring Eli Yamin, Zaid Nasser, Ari Roland, Chris Byars, Annetter Aguilar, LaFrae Sci Indian Road Café
600 West 218th Street @ Indian Road, New York, NY 10034
Tel: 212-942-7451, http://www.indianroadcafe.com/
Eli Yamin, piano and vocal,
Evan Christopher, clarinet
July 13, 2009 at University Ole Miss, Oxford Mississippi
Mississippi Arts Commission's Whole Schools Initiative Retreat.
Eli Yamin's enthusiasm for music, creativity and community through song permeates his work as a pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. Through his energy and intellectual curiosity, he brings a freshness and riotous joy. This feeling is very much present in the collectively led trio, Solar, with Adam Bernstein and Andy Demos. Solar's debut CD, Suns of Cosmic Consciousness, on Aztac Records combines the exciting rhythms of Africa, Brazil, Cuba and India in a stimulating mélange that radiates with a powerful originality. Time Out New York calls Suns of Cosmic Consciousness "ebullient," and the group continues to perform at New York Area clubs such as Sweet Rhythm and Night and Day.
In the late 1990's Eli Yamin spent two years touring internationally with tenor giant Illinois Jacquet and his big band. The experience of playing classic swing arrangements with a living swing master left an indelible impression on Yamin. In 2004, Eli launched the Eli Yamin Orchestra (EYO) specializing in the early music of Count Basie. Later that year the band was featured on "Count Basie Today" with Avery Brooks on National Public Radio's Count Basie Centennial Radio Project. In 2005, EYO played the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City and featured Eli Yamin, Miles Griffith, Harold Ousley, Claire Daly, James Zollar and Brad Leali. Recently the band performed swing arrangements of classic songs from James Bond films. In 2004-2005 The Eli Yamin Quartet with Eli Yamin, Bob Stewart, Kate McGarry and Lafrae Sci presented The Different Moods of the Blues at over 50 schools in the New York City metro area as repertory of The Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.
In the early 1990's, Eli Yamin was musical director for the 10th Anniversary tour of Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies. Working with director/choreographer Mercedes Ellington sparked what has become a driving force in Eli's work as a composer and educator-the marriage of jazz and theatre. Since 1998, Eli Yamin has co-written with Clifford Carlson, five jazz musicals for children. This work led Yamin and Carlson to start The Jazz Drama Program (JDP) , a tax-exempt arts organization, using the language of jazz to tell stories relevant to children's lives.
The subjects of the musicals include the fight for Women's Suffrage circa 1920 (Holding the Torch for Liberty), growing up as a contemporary teen (Hear My Voice), the healing power of the blues (Message From Saturn), a modern retelling of Noah's Ark with themes of cooperation, freedom and survival (Nora's Ark), and an interpretation of a traditional African American coming of age folk tale (When Malindy Swings). Each musical runs between 60 and 90 minutes and draws on the vast musical palette of the jazz canon, from Sun Ra, W.C. Handy and Thelonious Monk to Mary Lou Williams, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong. Numerous schools throughout New York City have produced Yamin/Carlson jazz musicals, thus involving thousands of children and adults in the language of jazz as a magical, immediate and effective way of telling stories. Jazz Times called Message From Saturn by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson, "the hippest move in jazz education, ever!" Scores, scripts and demo recordings of the songs can be found at http://www.thejazzdramaprogram.org/.
As a result of the success of The Jazz Drama Program, Eli Yamin was asked by Jazz at Lincoln Center, under the artistic direction of Wynton Marsalis, to serve as the director of the first Middle School Jazz Academy at Jazz at Lincoln Center. This program is the first time students have been offered ongoing instrumental music instruction at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, the first world class concert hall built specifically for jazz. In this position Eli has worked closely with Jazz at Lincoln Center staff and adjunct faculty to build the program from the ground up. Eli teaches Listening and Learning with the Jazz Masters and leads the student ensemble in performances both inside and outside of Jazz at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall complex. Recently Lynda Lopez on CBS Saturday Morning interviewed Eli about the program as students from the Middle School Jazz Academy performed live on camera, behind the weather report and in and out of commercial breaks. This prompted Lopez to remark, "we should have live jazz on CBS more often!"
In addition to jazz musicals, Eli Yamin's compositions include chamber works as well as scores for dance, radio and film. Claire Daly with Solar recorded his composition, Jacquet's Meditation, a solemn tribute to Illinois Jacquet, on her 2004 release Heaven Help Us All. Rickshaw in The Rain, for clarinet, viola and piano, and inspired by a trip to India, was premiered by the trio, Piaclava, at Weil Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2002. His jazz score for Phil Bertelson's film, Around the Time, about a biracial orphan's search for his birth mother and the 1960's love affair that led to his conception, screened internationally, on public television, and has received acclaim worldwide.
Just at home behind a mic as he is behind the piano, Eli Yamin has produced and hosted countless jazz and blues programs for WBGO/Jazz 88 in Newark, Sirius Satellite Radio and National Public Radio. These programs include Swing Street, Jazz Play, Jazz From the Archives, Portraits in Blue, 88 Alive and Sunday Morning Harmony.
Eli Yamin was born in 1968 in East Patchogue, New York and grew up on Long Island and central New Jersey. In a household of music enthusiasts he heard folk greats Elizabeth Cotten, Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, classics by Bach, Mozart and Sinatra and blues by B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix and Taj Mahal. As a young man, Yamin always sought out great teachers and studied with Jaki Byard, Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, John Kamitsuka, John Corigliano and Eleanor Hancock.
Eli received invaluable mentorship from drummer Walter Perkins and is a lifelong student of Barry Harris with whom he traveled twice to the Royal Conservatory in the Netherlands for intensive study and performance. Eli received his Bachelor of Arts Degree at Rutgers University and his Master's Degree in Music Education at Lehman College, City University of New York. He has since lectured and led hundreds of workshops on all levels from pre-K through graduate school, as well as staff development for professionals inside and outside of education.
Selected Discography Suns of Cosmic Consciousness (Aztac Records) with Solar Pushin' 30 - Eli Yamin Compositions (Yamin Music) with Perry Robinson, the Eli Yamin Trio and Quintet and Solar Speak, Spake, Spoke (Leaping Dog Media) with jazz poet Kirpal Gordon and Warren Smith, Art Baron, Claire Daly Heaven Help Us All (Daly Bread) with Claire Daly and Solar Movin' On (Koch International) with Claire Daly Swing Low (Koch International) with Claire Daly **Now on display, upon President Clinton's request, at the William J.Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas Magical Tales of Truth (Syda Foundation) with storyteller Isabelle Anderson
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