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Mark Elf: Dream Steppin'
by Jack Bowers
Mark Elf has adopted a minimalist approach on Dream Steppin’, placing his expressive guitar front and center in a trio setting with old pros Neal Miner on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. Unlike Elf’s previous eight albums on his Jen Bay label, there are no other front–liners or guest artists, and to be honest, none ...
Mark Elf: Dream Steppin'
by David A. Orthmann
On Dream Steppin’, Mark Elf’s eighth release for his Jen Bay label, the first thing you notice is the guitarist’s distinctive sound. The tone is full, rounded, and each note rings hard and true. While encompassing the somewhat polite quality of traditional jazz guitar, his sound nonetheless looms large, almost getting in your face without veering ...
Mark Elf: Dream Steppin'
by C. Michael Bailey
Durable Bop-oriented Guitar from New York. On the music scene since the mid 1970s, guitarist Mark Elf's career shifted into a higher gear when he began recording for his own Jen Bay records in the late 1980s. Since that time, he has spun out disc after disc receiving wide airplay. Chief among these are 2000's studio ...
Swingin'
By Mark Elf
Label: Jen Bay Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: I Won't Dance, Indubitably, Lazy Bird, Gambinie's Bambinies, All Of You, Waltz For Wilke, Hey There, Middle Of The Night, Blowins' For the Cohen's, HOV Lane, Manhattan, It Might As Well Be Spring
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by Jack Bowers
This is guitarist Mark Elf’s seventh album, and the first six have been a chart–topping best–sellers. There are two reasons for this: (1) Elf, bless his entrepreneurial heart, does almost everything to ensure the albums’ success short of selling them door–to–door (and he’d probably do that too if he had to); and (2), he’s a wonderful ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by Jack Bowers
This is guitarist Mark Elf’s seventh album, and the first six have been a chart–topping best–sellers. There are two reasons for this: (1) Elf, bless his entrepreneurial heart, does almost everything to ensure the albums’ success short of selling them door–to–door (and he’d probably do that too if he had to); and (2), he’s a wonderful ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by C. Michael Bailey
Mark Elf breaks new ground on his Jen Bay studio follow-up to Live at Smalls. New York plectrist Mark Elf has been producing solid, bop-oriented music on his Jen Bay Records for the past 13 years. His playing style can be described as spherical. His tone is roundly polished and his playing is deliberately cyclical. His ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by David A. Orthmann
In an age when the marketing of images and attitudes often takes precedence over purely musical considerations, the quiet success of guitarist Mark Elf is impressive indeed. During the mid-90s, defying conventional wisdom, Elf took business matters into his own hands and founded Jen Bay Jazz. Since then the label has released six recordings under his ...
Mark Elf: Swingin'
by AAJ Staff
As a one-man production and marketing organization, it's a wonder that Mark Elf finds the time to write music, practice, perform and record.But he does. And he does it very well indeed.Releasing a CD a year on his own Jen Bay Records label, Elf graces listeners once again, this time with an ...
Mark Elf Live at Small's
By Mark Elf
Label: Jen Bay Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Quick Silver; 109 West; 52nd Street Theme; It Was Written In The Stars; Stella By Starlight; Too Close For Comfort; The Theme; 109 West. (Total Time: 59:28)
