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Elijah Shiffer

Elijah Shiffer is a New York-based musician who has been involved with nearly every facet of the city’s jazz scene as a saxophonist, bandleader, composer, arranger, editor, and critic. He currently leads three regularly performing bands, all of them quartets, and has released albums of each one. His most recent album is “City Of Birds, Volume 3”, the third of hopefully many installments in a collection of compositions inspired by every species of bird native to New York City. His previous album, "Dada Bebop”, features the Dada Bebop Quartet, in which he explores experimental possibilities of the bebop tradition while incorporating the influence of 1910s-20s Dada sound poetry. The third quartet is the Robber Crabs, which combines the influences of early jazz and avant-garde jazz; with this group he recorded his debut album "Unhinged", released in April 2018. Elijah won an ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award with the title track from this album. From 2020 to 2023, Elijah also led the Star Jelly Horns, an eclectic, sax-heavy version of a New Orleans-style "brass" band, and recorded an album titled “Star Jelly”. Starting in 2021, Elijah has been making these recordings at the historic Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, releasing them on his own label also called Star Jelly.

City Of Birds, Volume 3: Fly By Night Blues

By Elijah Shiffer

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Scops; I Know I'll Find Her Soon; Big John's Pond; Hawknights; Who Hoots For Toot?; I'm All Ears; Fly By Night Blues; Mock Nocturne; Robins Already; Postscript For Flaco.

Elijah Shiffer: City Of Birds, Volume 3: Fly By Night Blues

by Max Kutner
December 25, 2025

Few current composers are as restlessly inventive as saxophonist-clarinetist Elijah Shiffer. Over the past decade, Shiffer has led numerous ensembles and written an ever-expanding catalog of original music, all crafted and thematically tied closely to and informed by distinct aspects of his interests and tastes. Fly by Night Blues, the third volume in his City of ...

Fifield, Guerrero & Siskind, Carlon And Much More

by Bob Osborne
August 15, 2024

Another selection of brand new releases from around the wide World of Jazz taking in Scotland, the United States , South Korea, Canada, Italy, Greece, Chile and France.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Fraser Fifield “Second Sight" from Second Sight (Tanar Records) 00:29 Tony Guerrero & Jeremy Siskind “In A Mellow Tone" from Duo Tones (Metalax ...

Star Jelly

By Elijah Shiffer

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me; Full Of Wonder; The Longest Nights; Red Roots; Crustacean Celebration; Star Jelly; Gowanus Blues; The Rarest Bird In Central Park.

Elijah Shiffer: Star Jelly

by Richard J Salvucci
October 23, 2023

Sometimes very talented people write difficult music. The music is difficult because its intent is not immediately clear. Or it does not follow canonical criteria, at least as currently understood. Music history presents us with many examples: Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Dmitri Shostakovich--these are only very famous “classical" composers whose work passed from controversial to acceptable ...