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Joe Elefante's Wheel of Dharma: Return of the Light

by Jack Bowers
October 6, 2025

The second act of Joe Elefante's laudable jazz career was born in tragedy: the loss in 2024 of his wife of sixteen years to cancer. It was then that Elefante, who once led the world-class Joe Elefante Big Band, decided to leave his long-time position as a schoolteacher and return to his first love, jazz, and ...

Wheel of Dharma

By Joe Elefante

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bad Dancing; Rocky; The One Who Knows; The Earth Is on Fire; Samadhi; Lion's Eyes.

Joe Elefante

Born: July 21, 1978

Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

Joe has traveled 4 continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. Joe founded the Joe Elefante Big Band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil's Jazz Club for three years, and was featured on ABC's Nightline and in the Wall Street Journal.  He was named a Jazz Ambassador by the Kennedy Center, and has toured Eastern Europe and the Middle East as a jazz pianist for the U.S. State Department.  He has also been selected to the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in NYC and the Betty Carter: Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center. He has also musically directed, conducted or played countless theater productions, including several at the Paper Mill Playhouse and Jersey Boys on Broadway and National Tour.