Hurricane Sandy Relief Concert and APAP Showcase
Join us this Saturday night January 12, 2013 in New York City for a great night of music and raising money for a great cause. We are happy to participate in MOJO’S MARDIS GRAS CONCERT where profits will go to Hurricane Sandy Relief Efforts via funds raised by Mecca Shriners and the Mariners Masonic Lodge […]
Eli Yamin Blues Band and Okra Dance Company at TriBeca Performing Arts Center
What a gas it was performing with all these cats. This is what I’m talking about–jazz arts for a better world! We can do this when we coordinate our minds! That phrase comes from Don Pullen’s tune, “Listen to the People.” This is the 20th anniversary of that tune. Everyone needs to know it too…that’s […]
Two Pianos Two Minds One Message – FREEDOM
Great times presenting on the music of the Civil Rights Movement this week at Mesa Arts Center with maestro Damien Sneed. What a pleasure and honor. Looking forward to next week’s concert with Eli Yamin Blues Band and the Okra Dance Company at TriBeca Performing Arts Center in lower Manhattan, Friday, October 26 at 8pm. […]
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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Krasnoyarsk, Siberia
We arrived in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia early in the morning on July 1, drummer LaFrae Sci’s Birthday. She was the first of the band off the plane and immediately received the warmth and welcome of the local people. When we got to the hotel, we found the International Music Festival in full swing with musicians from […]
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Yonkers Waterfront Concert
What a beautiful evening it was on the Yonkers Waterfront on August 12 in concert with the blues band. For the first time, we added trombone and were knocked out by the soulful contributions of trombonist Chris Washburne. This concert also featured vocalist Charenee Wade, her first time appearing with the band since the Guatemala […]
Eli Yamin Blues Band CD Release Concert Monday, June 20 at 8pm at Lincoln Center. Information and tickets.
The Eli Yamin Blues Band returns to the Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center Institute to perform a homecoming concert in celebration of their new release, I Feel So Glad. This is no ordinary blues band,” former Living Blues magazine editor Scott Barretta declares in his liner notes to I Feel So Glad, the debut […]
Guatemala International Jazz Festival
From Idaho, it was straight South to Guatemala with the Blues Band. This time, for the first time with Charenee Wade, vocal and Ben Stapp, tuba, along with LaFrae Sci, drums and yours truly at the piano and hollering. Man, what a gas. The first night we opened the festival with a concert on the […]
A Healing Song, AVAILABLE NOW as single
In anticipation of our new CD with The Eli Yamin Blues Band, “I Feel So Glad,” we just released a single from the album: A Healing Song by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson This song is a message to the world about the healing power of the blues. It’s great to groove to and sing […]
Remembering Santiago
I just found this video online from our visit to Balmaceda, a community music school in downtown Santiago. Can you believe they have a blues harmonica class that meets every week? Just fantastic. When I went to Mississippi a few months after visiting Chile, I was telling teachers from the Delta about it. I was […]
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