Results for "Eli Yamin"

Claire Daly: Rah! Rah!

by Dan Bilawsky
October 18, 2020

Ask a casual fan about Rahsaan Roland Kirk's impact and you're likely to receive a remark about multi-horn madness—a man wielding three at once, brazenly blowing the walls down. But Kirk, of course, was so much more than that enduring image. His writing, performing, spirit and humanity spoke to the ages, reaching out and grabbing ahold ...

Baritone Saxophonist Claire Daly Salutes One Of Her Chief Musical Inspirations On 'Rah! Rah!,' To Be Released October 2 On Ride Symbol Records

August 8, 2020

Baritone saxophonist Claire Daly celebrates the music and influence of the great Rahsaan Roland Kirk with all the enthusiasm promised by the title of Rah! Rah!, her new album. Set for an October 2 release on Ride Symbol Records, it’s a quartet date featuring pianist Eli Yamin, bassist Dave Hofstra, and drummer Peter Grant. It also ...

Eli Yamin

Born: November 21, 1968

Eli “Dr. E” Yamin was born in East Patchogue, Long Island and has performed as a jazz and blues ambassador for the United States, in over 25 countries and in the U.S. at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the White House.

Eli’s recordings include Squeeze In Tight, jazz and blues songs for solidarity with his jazz and blues band; You Can’t Buy Swing with his jazz quartet; I Feel So Glad, with his blues band; Louie’s Dream, dedicated to “our jazz heroes,” with clarinetist Evan Christopher, Live In Burghausen with jazz icon, Illinois Jacquet, and five albums with baritone saxophonist Claire Daly including Swing Low, on permanent display in President Bill Clinton's Library in Little Rock. Eli’s three published youth-centered musicals: Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical, Holding the Torch For Liberty, and Message From Saturn, have been performed internationally in four languages and across the United States, bringing diverse communities together through jazz and blues to tell socially uplifting stories.

Message From Saturn

By Eli Yamin

Label: Jazz Power Initiative
Released: 2016
Track listing: A Healing Song; Departure Overture; Mary Lou Williams; How Do I Play Harmonica; Skimming the Atmosphere; Message From Saturn; Milky way to The Big Bang; Bebe’s Theme; Music Holds the Key; Traveling The Milky Way; Earth Stomp; traveling The Milky Way To Water; Ocean Swing; Traveling The Milky Way To Air; You can Call Me Louise; Into The Fire; Blues Theme; Mournful Travel; Key To The Night Sky; Mournful Travel Variation; Big Nancy Blues.

Eli Yamin: Message From Saturn

by James Nadal
November 12, 2016

The Jazz Drama Program was founded in 2003, in New York City, by pianist and composer Eli Yamin, and educator Clifford Carlson, to stimulate youth by offering diverse and imaginative jazz, theater, and dance programs with active participation of those enrolled. Message From Saturn takes its title from a famous Sun Ra comment: “I just got ...

Sun Ra Tribute "Message From Saturn" by Eli Yamin - Available on October 10th

October 8, 2016

"Saxophonist Knoel Scott told me Sun Ra came into rehearsal and said, 'I just got a message from Saturn. We are not playing enough blues!' I thought about this for ten years, then joined up with Clifford Carlson to write this story." —Eli Yamin Liner notes from Message From Saturn A Space Odyssey of three young ...

Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

By Eli Yamin

Label: The Jazz Drama Program, Yamin Music LLC
Released: 2013
Track listing: Louie's Dream; The Mooche; You Gotta Treat It Gentle; It's The Way That You Talk; Don't Go Back On Your Raisin;; What's your Story Morning Glory; Azalea; My Jazz Hero; Baraka 75; Let His Love Take Me Higher; Impromptu; Dancers In Love; Louie's Dream Reprise.

Eli Yamin and Evan Christopher: Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

by Dan Bilawsky
March 18, 2013

Hero worship has long been a magnetic force that helps to draw in the next generation of musicians, yet this very concept is often pooh-poohed by a segment of the musical and artistic community. These people feel that new is always better, and that originality can't thrive if artists acknowledge their forefathers and wear their influences ...

Holding the Torch For Liberty

By Eli Yamin

Label: The Jazz Drama Program
Released: 2012
Track listing: Newsgirl Rag Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ (Piano Solo) Factory Dance New York Harbor-Comet’s Arrival The Roar of the Wild Boar Newsgirl Rag II Factory Dance II It’s the Way That You Talk What Is America? Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ What Is America? (Blues) What Is America? (Habanera) Wild Cat Strut Cuban Love Song Flame Dance Newsgirl Rag III Don’t Go Back On Your Raisin’ (Reprise) What Is America? (Finale)

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center Presents Eli Yamin Blues Band on October 26

October 18, 2012

BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, the longest operating performance venue in lower Manhattan, proudly presents the Eli Yamin Blues Band performing on Friday, October 26 at 8PM. The band will kick off our annual Tribeca Spotlight series, The Next Voice You Hear, with its debut recording, I Feel So Glad and a number of other rich ...