The Jazz Drama Program presents New Orleans Music and Culture Professional Development at National Dance Insitute Center for Learning & the Arts in Harlem, USA
What a pleasure and honor it was giving this professional development workshop at National Dance Institute at their beautiful new center in Harlem. Thanks to music director, Jerome Korman and Artistic Director, Ellen Weinstein for bringing me back to NDI after many years. What a tremendous group of dancers and musicians ready to give their […]
Back in New York City
Back in New York City this week we performed at Intermediate School 291: Roland Hayes School in Brooklyn with the Eli Yamin Trio and The Magic and Mechanics of Jazz. Drummer Dwayne “Cook” Broadnax and bassist Elias Bailey have been performing this show with me for ten years and this time it was different. We […]
Abakan, Siberia
Dlya menya ehto ne prosto pesnya Sdelai vdoch ee ti poymesh Ya ee bleus vso vremya vmeste Dushevny blues Dushevy blues Russian translation by Ludmila Borisova A Healing Song by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson from the jazz musical “Message From Saturn” We had the good fortune to visit the music school […]
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Great week at Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival
What a magnificent week at the 45th Annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. It’s an amazing gathering of fans, musicians, students, volunteers and staff creating a soulful jazz village in the sparsely populated and somewhat remote region of northern Idaho. Joy permeates […]
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Jazz, Drama and Young People
http://www.jazzartassociation.org/jam/jam-2011/bulletin-2011/ It’s amazing to receive this bulletin from our trip last Spring to Montenegro with the quartet and Nora’s Ark. What an unbelievable time that was! And now I’m excited to be returning to Idaho on Monday for my third trip to participate in the Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. It’s an amazing festival […]
Jazz Drama students transform at Avatar Studios in Manhattan
Georgina recording at Avatar Studios in Manhattan The Jazz Drama Program began rehearsals with students at Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music on October 24th and continued weekly for seven weeks leading up to the recording session at Avatar on December 11. It was amazing to watch the transformation of the […]
Help us record Holding the Torch for Liberty, the jazz musical about women’s suffrage
We have launched a campaign through the website Kickstarter to raise funds to record Holding the Torch for Liberty, our jazz musical about women’s suffrage. Please help us reach our goal by December 31. The way Kickstarter works, if we don’t reach our goal, we don’t get any of the money. Please help […]
Montenegro Premiere of Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson
What an unbelievable week we had in Montenegro at Jazz Art Jam, celebrating Jazz Appreciation Month, a co-production with Jazz Art Montenegro and The Jazz Drama Program with support from the U.S. Embassy in Montenegro, the municipality and Porto Montenegro. I never dreamed that this production of Nora’s Ark could take off the way it […]
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Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival 2011
What a phenomenal festival this is. 7,000 young people from all over the Northwest descend on Moscow, Idaho where they are embraced by the entire University of Idaho community. And I mean the whole community from the president to the freshmen and families in neighborhoods. Students, teachers, jazz fans and curious bystanders are all […]
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