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Squeeze In Tight, jazz and blues songs for solidarity

Eli Yamin

Label: Jazz Power Initiative
Released: 2025
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Tracks

Squeeze In Tight Blueswash Freight Train Blues For My Sister My Babe Listen to the Young Cats Let His Love Take Me Higher Climate Change Make Room Parado Al Borde De Las Lagrimas Heartbreak Hotel Zaid's Blues

Personnel

Eli Yamin

piano

David F. Gibson

drums

Elias Bailey

bass, acoustic

Zaid Nasser

saxophone, alto

Nicole Davis

trumpet

Clover St. Hubert

vocals

Amelia Thomas

vocals

Dilan Rodriguez

vocals

Gigi De Leon

vocals

Jeff Jones “The Jedi Master”

producer

Album Description

With jazz and blues music comes joy. We create solidarity through improvisation, call and response, co-signing, shuffle, swing, soulful sound, syncopation and polyrhythm. Drummer Walter Perkins told me, “It’s our job, Baby Sweets, to make people feel good,” and that’s what this album aims to do, make you feel good. Squeeze In Tight, the title track, is for helping us feel a greater connection with one another after long periods of separation; Blueswash is to wash off the dust of life; and Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotten and arranged by yours truly, helps us reconnect to a sense of home. Blues For My Sister, is inspired by the spark of my sister Ariana; and My Babe is us riffin’ on Willie Dixon who famously declared, “The blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits.” I couldn’t agree more. Listen to the Young Cats is about learning from musicians half my age; and Let His Love Take Me Higher, co-written with Evan Christopher, is for a time to talk with God. Climate Change is an absurd take on the utter seriousness of climate deterioration and our collective responsibility to do something about it; and Make Room came to me after reconnecting with my former student, the pop idol Charlie Puth. Parado Al Borde De Las Lagrimas was inspired by Ray Anderson who asked me to write a song “on the edge of tears... more

credits

released September 1, 2025

Eli Yamin, piano, vocal
Zaid Nasser, alto saxophone
Elias Bailey, bass
David F. Gibson, drums
Nicole Davis, trumpet on 1,3,6,10,12
Clover St. Hubert, vocal 1,2,3,5,9
Gigi De Leon, Dilan Rodriguez, Amelia Thomas, backing vocal on 1

Produced by Jeff Jones “The Jedi Master”
All Yamin songs published by Yamin Music BMI
Eli Yamin is a Steinway artist
Full band recorded April 14th, 2023 in NYC at The Bunker Studio
Vocal recording at World Alert Music in Harlem and Jazz Power Initiative in Inwood.
Mixed by Jeff Jones “The Jedi Master” at World Alert Music
Mastered by Andre Dias at Post Modern Mastering, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Assistant Engineers: Jonathan Hernandez-Jimenez, Aidan Adler
Zah! Jr. instructors: Antoinette Montague, Kena Onyejekwe
Cover Design: Jake Lerman
Photos: Shuhei Hayashi (cover), Anthony Rojas (back)
Executive Producers: Eli Yamin and Jazz Power Initiative
Booking Contact: [email protected]
Visit Eli and the band at www.eliyamin.com

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