Eli Yamin - You Can't Buy Swing

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:43
Size: 141.3 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[6:07] 1. I Want To Be A Teacher
[6:24] 2. You Can't Buy Swing
[4:22] 3. Getting Somewhere
[5:23] 4. Well, You Better Not
[5:07] 5. Bop To Normal
[8:31] 6. Rwandan Child
[5:48] 7. Just One
[5:50] 8. Katiana's New Start
[6:47] 9. Jacquet's Meditation
[5:38] 10. Waltz On The Hudson
[1:41] 11. In Walked Barry

Eli Yamin is Artistic Director of The Jazz Drama Program and Director of Jazz At Lincoln Center’s Middle School Jazz Academy. He is a jazz pianist, composer, educator, broadcaster, bandleader and Steinway artist. Eli’s joyful and swinging piano playing has led him to perform at top concert halls and festivals in the United States, India, China, Mali, Japan and throughout Europe. Through his touring experiences, Eli is continually blown away by the power of jazz to uplift, inspire and build community all over the world. As a leading educator passionately committed to expanding the jazz audience, Eli is teaching jazz to business leaders, middle school students, music teachers and college professors. He is a consultant for The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad, produced with the U.S. State Department, the National Endowment for the Arts, Fordham University Graduate School of Business and WBGO Radio. Eli’s six jazz musicals for children have been performed for thousands of people by hundreds of young folks. They include Message From Saturn, about the healing power of the blues and Nora’s Ark, a modern retelling of the biblical tale. He has recorded numerous CD's including Suns of Cosmic Consciousness, with the group Solar, and most recently, You Can't Buy Swing, with the Eli Yamin Quartet. Eli has played, recorded and taught with Barry Harris, Wynton Marsalis, Illinois Jacquet, Walter Perkins, Perry Robinson, Mercedes Ellington, Kate McGarry, Claire Daly and Bob Stewart. Eli holds a Master's Degree in Music Education from Lehman College, City University of New York and has appeared on CBS Saturday Morning, PBS, Fox News and National Public Radio.

You Can't Buy Swing

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Eli Yamin & Evan Christopher - Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:03
Size: 100.9 MB
Styles: Piano jazz, Clarinet jazz
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[4:44] 1. Louie's Dream
[4:21] 2. The Mooche
[4:52] 3. You Gotta Treat It Gentle
[3:31] 4. It's The Way That You Talk
[4:15] 5. Don't Go Back On Your Raisin'
[4:50] 6. What's Your Story Morning Glory
[4:21] 7. Azalea
[0:26] 8. My Jazz Hero
[0:14] 9. Baraka 75
[0:12] 10. Let His Love Take Me Higher
[4:01] 11. Impromptu
[5:44] 12. Dancers In Love
[2:27] 13. Louie's Dream (Reprise)

From jazz clubs to concert halls and even the White House, the intuitive and playful spark they bring to the bandstand is always marked with passion and dynamic interplay. Yamin and Christopher share a deep commitment to celebrating the enduring legacy and relevance of the greats who inspire them. Yet, even though aural glimpses of their heroes are evident, their dedication to their own personal voices is abundant in this collection of thoughtfully chosen songs. Louie's Dream, is a song recorded only one other time by Louis Armstrong with co-composer Marty Napoleon on piano, the last surviving member of the Armstrong All-Stars. Other selections include The Mooche for Barney Bigard and the Ellingtonians, What's Your Story Morning Glory?. for Mary Lou Williams, Baraka 75, a spiky Yamin original dedicated to poet/activist Amiri Baraka, and You Gotta Treat It Gentle, Christopher's bluesy ballad for Sidney Bechet. Two songs from Yamin's jazz musical about women's suffrage, "Holding the Torch for Liberty, are also featured. The New Orleans flavored It's the Way That You Talk and the heartstring-pulling ballad, Don't Go Back On Your Raisin'. Two Ellington rarities, Azalea and Dancers in Love round out the collection. Label-Yamin Music LLC, co-sponsored by The Jazz Drama Program, a non-profit 501-c3 corporation, inspiring students and teachers with interactive experiences in the jazz arts-storytelling, music, theatre, dance and visual arts.

Louie's Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

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