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Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical

Eli Yamin

Label: The Jazz Drama Program
Released: 2010
Duration: 00:31:00
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Tracks

The Laboratory It’s Gonna Rain The Storm Turtle Trot Cheetah Trot Stampede, The Chase Oath of Honor Blues Interlude There’s Blue All Around Me-Predator Blues Segue Into Sunrise There’s Blue All Around Me-Prey Segue to Born Free Bunny Entrance Swingin’ On the Family Tree Cheetah Overboard, Turtles Overboard I See Blue

Personnel

Eli Yamin

piano

Brooklyn Youth Chorus

vocals

Jon Mark McGowan

trumpet

Chris Byars

saxophone

Pat O'Leary

bass

Stefan Schatz

drums

Album Description

This album was produced byThe Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative, a non profit organization founded in 2003 by a jazz musician and a schoolteacher. Meeting the need for high quality, age-appropriate material in tune with today's youth, Nora's Ark is a hilarious retelling of the biblical tale. Set on a modern cruise ship, Nora and company rescue animals from the Bronx Zoo. The show captures the challenges of growing up, the desire to be free, and is rich with lessons of cooperation in the ultimate struggle for survival against the threat of climate change.

This "original cast recording" features The Eli Yamin Jazz Quintet and members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, New York City's leading professional training choir, to perform 16 original songs written especially for young people that tell the story of Nora's Ark. The songs range in style from blues and swing to bebop.

"The hippest move in secondary jazz education, ever." - Jazz Times Magazine

Recorded at world famous, Avatar Studios, New York City a/k/a Power Station

credits

released November 1, 2010

All vocal songs (tracks 2, 9, 11, 14, 16) by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson and published by Yamin Music (BMI)
All instrumentals by Eli Yamin, published by Yamin Music (BMI)

Eli Yamin Quintet:
Eli Yamin (conductor, piano)
Chris Byars (tenor, flute)
Mark McGowan (trumpet)
Pat O'Leary (bass)
Stefan Schatz (drums)

Eli Yamin is a Steinway Artist

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Jazz Singers background
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.

Executive Producer: Kirk Imamura
Producer: Eli Yamin
Associate Producer: Clifford Carlson
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Jim Anderson
Assistant Engineers: Aki Nishimura, Bob Mallory, Fernando Lodeiro
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf! Productions
Record at Avatar Studios on March 6 &7, 2010
Vocal Coach: Charenee Wade
Assistant Vocal Coach: Meryl Zimmerman
Artistic Director The Jazz Drama Program: Eli Yamin
Artistic Director Brooklyn Youth Chorus: Dianne Berkun
Chorus Managers: Katie VanDerMeer, Nathalie Joachim
Cover Illustration: Daryl Long

Thanks to: Kirk Imamura and Avatar Studios, Jim Anderson, Dianne Berkun, Aviva Mitchell, Alan Silverman, Ingrid Baptista and all the supporters of The Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative.

Special thanks to Jeannette LoVetri of the Voice Workshop, whose indefatigable vision of collaboration between The Jazz Drama Program and Brooklyn Youth Chorus made this recording happen.

(c) & (p) 2010 by The Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative