Whole Schools Institute, Meridian, Mississippi
What a pleasure and honor it was to work with Mississippi Teachers at the Whole Schools Institute in Meridian, Mississippi July 19, 20 and 21. 3 hours a day for 3 days we worked on the workshop version of Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical by myself and Clifford Carlson. Some folks started out with a […]
What a year this has been…
We had a great quartet gig at Blues Alley on June 15 with Todd Williams on saxophone, LaFrae Sci on drums and Amy Shook on bass. As it turned out, the performance was exactly one year after my first trip to the White House for the White House Jazz Studio Event. It’s been an incredible […]
Nora’s Ark Recording Project
Last week we recorded Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical by Clifford Carlson and myself. It was a dream come true after a 10 year journey from it’s first voyage at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, New York. The Jazz Drama Program, the non profit I co-founded, supported the project in collaboration with the […]
The Jazz Drama Program In Mississippi
The trip to Mississippi was amazing. The photo above captures the sheer joy we felt at the culmination of the workshop performance of Nora’s Ark, the jazz musical by Clifford Carlson and me. Judi Holifield, Director of Whole Schools Initiative, sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, brought me down to University of Mississippi at Oxford, […]
The Jazz Drama Program: Jazz Stories of India and America
Here’s a taste of last summer’s trip for cultural diplomacy to India. Thank-you Stefan Schatz for putting together such a wonderful travelogue of our journey! “Jazz Pianist-Composer-Educator Eli Yamin leads a quartet on a musical journey through India, performing everything from jazz standards to original compositions and Indian classical music, and collaborating with renowned North […]
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