Basking in the glow of Jazz Power Institute 2025
Jazz Power Institute 2025 Video Highlight July 22, 2025: Last week we welcomed over 30 teachers and teaching artists to Lehman College in the Bronx for the 11th Annual Jazz Power Institute 2025. Once again, the Institute provided participants with a unique and inspiring immersion in jazz music and culture across disciplines of music, dance, […]
Jazz Power Initiative Celebration21
We are excited to celebrate 21 years of Jazz Power Initiative, the non profit I co-founded in 2003. Please join us in support of our mission of transforming lives through jazz arts education and performance. You can buy a ticket to the concert on May 21 or give a tax deductible donation on this link.
Eli on WBGO with Gary Walker
I was thrilled to reconnect with Gary Walker at WBGO who I first met in 1986 when I starting working at WBGO on my 18th birthday. We discussed some of our experiences together at the station as well as my career as an artist, educator, co-founder, managing and artistic director of Jazz Power Initiative and […]
“Solid and swinging.” – Scott Yanow, L.A. Jazz Scene
“…a freshness and riotous joy that make you feel you never heard jazz piano before.” – The Jazz Patriot, NYC
“I learn from Eli every time I see him work.” – Wynton Marsalis, Trumpeter/Composer
“…one of the miracle workers… the driving force behind an extremely successful series of jazz musicals…” -Tom Greenland, All About Jazz New York
“I have to congratulate you… for your creative approach.” – Dave Brubeck, pianist/composer
“I watched your DVD and thoroughly enjoyed it.” – Bill Clinton, President/Saxophonist
“A true Eulipion, swinging poet of the piano, transcendental educator, and powerful purveyor of the truth and the light.” Todd Barkan, record/concert producer and lyricist for “Bright Moments,” by Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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