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Yelena Eckemoff

Yelena Eckemoff is an internationally renowned Russian-born pianist, composer, poet, and visual artist who organically blends classical elements with jazz improvisation in evocative and uniquely distinctive works that strike a delicate balance between through-composed frameworks and open-ended exploration and improvisation. Eckemoff is highly prolific composer and recording artist who produces the albums that are listed worldwide among the best releases of a year. Each release has its own charm and expression, involving the greatest celebrities of the world jazz scene, but always bears the personal signature of the composer/pianist. Yelena Eckemoff is a virtuoso pianist who played numerous piano solo recitals and lead her various all-star bands performing at prestigious venues, including Birdland NYC, Jazz Standard, Saint Peter’s Church, and Ronnie Scotts in London.

Scenes From the Dark Ages

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pilgrims; Village Tavern; From Peasants Life; Spell-Bound Fortress; Monks in Scriptorium; Cathedral; Legends of the Castle; Adventures of a Knight; Battle; Chivalry; Tournament; Masquerade; Alchemist; Quest; From the Life of the Lords.

Rosendals Garden

By Yelena Eckemoff

Label: L & H Production
Released: 2026
Track listing: CD 1: ABBA Museum; Rosendals Garden; Gamla Stan; Country Orchard Café; Öresund Bridge. CD 2: Skansen Park; Sunrise in Rimbo; Ruins of Älvsborg; Storanden Nature Reserve; Strandvägen Pier; Gripsholm Castle.

Andy Sheppard, Jonathan Karrant, Eva Cassidy, Wadada Leo Smith

by Cheryl K.
September 17, 2026

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music--pianists/composers Senri Oe, Kelly Green, and Sullivan Fortner; saxophonists Andy Sheppard and Linda Sikhakhane; vocalists Jonathan Karrant, Eva Cassidy, and Brigitte Fontaine; guitarist Aaron Quinn's Sunchoke; and the duo David / David.Playlist Rare Silk “Storm" from American Eyes (Palo Alto) 5:33 Senri Oe “Pure Scars" ...

Yelena Eckemoff: Adventures of the Wildflower

by Tyran Grillo
September 12, 2026

Yelena Eckemoff's Adventures of the Wildflower begins beneath the thinnest layer of perception. Its governing question concerns who receives recognition and what can survive being misread. A columbine enters the world as possibility. Decreed a weed, she later flowers beyond that verdict. Eckemoff turns this botanical fable into a meditation on exclusion and hidden continuity. Her ...

Yelena Eckemoff: Rosendals Garden

by Tyran Grillo
August 30, 2026

A garden is one of civilization's gentlest fictions, a piece of earth coaxed into pattern while still permitted to breathe beyond the gardener's intentions. That tension between cultivation and freedom animates Rosendals Garden, pianist and composer Yelena Eckemoff's 23rd album since 2010. The project, animated as always by a vivid personal concept, distills her travels through ...

Immanuel Wilkens all the way live + Candice Hoyes and Psoas

by Hobart Taylor
June 10, 2026

Music from Immanuel Wilkens Quartet , Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol.3. From France, Plume, From Denmark, Carsten Dahl both with drummer Gregory Hutchinson and both groups celebrate Coltrane. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Sarah Sharp “The Nearness 0f You" from Deja Vu (Spaceflight) 00:10 Will Lyle “Eridania" from The All Seeing Eye (Self-Produced) 02:37 ...

Arturo Sandoval, Hadley Caliman, Yelena Eckemoff, Rebecca Rafla & Sam Baum

by Joe Dimino
May 24, 2026

We launch into the 959th Episode with music from a truly inspiring project by Sam Baum, released on World Autism Day and titled From My Shiny Imagination. Featuring legendary special guests like David Amram and Bobby Sanabria, the album shines with heart, creativity, and vibrant jazz spirit. From there, we journey through fresh new sounds from ...

Ben Rosenblum, Tierney Sutton, and Jimmy Giuffre

by Jerome Wilson
May 13, 2026

This show features new music from Ben Rosenblum and Tierney Sutton as well as older selections from Jimmy Giuffre and Johnny Smith.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Trombocalist Big Band “Sulk City" from The Vigil ...

Genre jambalaya this week, exploratory jazz, third stream, straight ahead and the blues

by Hobart Taylor
April 15, 2026

Dave Adewumi, Yelena Eckimoff, Tomas Janzon, Jesse Davis and Dida Pelled. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Dave Adewumi" Is" from The Flame Beneath the Silence (Giant Step Arts) 0:11 Erica von Kleist “Picc a Peck" from Picc Pocket (Self-Produced) 05:25 Tomas Janzon “ Did I Say" from Jazz Diary (Changes) 11:02 Host Speaks 16:01 Alicia ...