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Mark Elf: Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2001

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 ...

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Mark Elf: Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 2001

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Mark Elf: Swingin'

by David A. Orthmann
March 1, 2001

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 ...

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Mark Elf: Swingin'

by C. Michael Bailey
March 1, 2001

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 ...

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Mark Elf: Swingin'

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2001

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 ...

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