Eli Yamin (aka Dr. “E”) Quartet breaking new ground Downstairs at Bond 45
Eli Yamin (aka Dr. “E”), piano and vocals Zaid Nasser, alto saxophone Elias Bailey, bass David F. Gibson, drums
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 […]
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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U.S. Embassy in Moscow
We returned to Moscow to perform at the Independence Day Celebration at Spaso House, where U.S. Ambassador McFaul resides with his family. We enjoyed our conversation with the Ambassador and hearing from him first hand what it’s like to work closely with President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. He was incredibly generous with his […]
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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Eli Yamin Blues Band arrives in St. Petersburg for Russia Tour 2012
After a long trip from NY via Amsterdam, we arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia at midnight and pulled up next to Air Force 2 with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton aboard. With a few hours of daylight still ahead of us, we took a magical “white night” walk and saw some of the beauty […]
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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