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Eli Yamin

Eli Yamin is a jazz and blues pianist, composer, singer, producer and educator. Raised in the bands of jazz masters Walter Perkins, Illinois Jacquet and Barry Harris, his joyful and imaginative piano playing have taken him around the world with his own groups as a cultural ambassador for the U.S. Department of State and led him to perform and teach at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City and President Obama’s White House. Yamin co-founded and serves as Managing and Artistic Director Jazz Power Initiative, a non-profit organization that transforms lives through jazz arts education. Yamin’s compositions like “A Healing Song,” about the healing power of the blues, and “Rwandan Child” about the wisdom of children awaken audiences shared sense of humanity, love, and joy

Message From Saturn

By Eli Yamin

Label: Self Produced
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: Self Produced
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 ...

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 ...

You Can't Buy Swing

By Eli Yamin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: I Want To Be A Teacher; You Can

Eli Yamin: You Can't Buy Swing

by George Kanzler
November 18, 2008

Pianist Eli Yamin is a communicator who believes jazz can foster a sense of community. His work is expansive and extroverted, populist in the best sense. As a teacher--he's now part of Jazz at Lincoln Center's education program--he's created jazz dramas and the dramatic impulse is a strong component of his music. So is swing. This ...