The Joe Elefante Big Band
with featured guest Ralph Bowen
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 @ 7:00pm
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Elefante Music & School for the Performing Arts
1790 Springfield Ave., New Providence, NJ
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The internationally acclaimed Joe Elefante Big Band has been featured on ABC's Nightline, Fine Living Network and allaboutjazz.com, and in the Wall Street Journal, the Star Ledger and Jazz Improv magazine. Legendary jazz writer Nat Hentoff, in his article "The Re-Emergence of Big Band Jazz," wrote about the Joe Elefante Big band: "During the evening, I could barely stay in my seat at times and often shouted in sheer pleasure… The crisp, chargin brass section of the Elefante band would have delighted Duke Ellington, and the surgingly cohesive reed section recalled the sound of the Benny Carter and Thad Jones big bands… If the Joe Elefante Big Band gest booked into rooms for dancing as well as listening, there might be a revival, across the age spectrum, of transcendant romance on the dance floor."
Joe and the band, Elefante Music and Conn-Selmer are thrilled to present special guest artist Ralph Bowen at this performance.
Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has made his mark on the New York jazz scene for over three decades, while bringing his "casual perfectionism" to clubs, concert halls, and festivals worldwide. Bowen's discography of over 70 titles includes associations with Orrin Evans, Michel Camilo, Horace Silver, Renee Rosnes, Kenny Garrett, Steve Wilson, Kenny Davis, Michael Mossman, Ralph Peterson Jr., Anthony Branker and Jared Gold.
His seven solo CDs (Movin' On, A Morning View, Soul Proprietor, Keep the Change, Five, Dedicated, Due Reverence, and Power Play) feature a wide variety of top shelf musicians including trumpeters John Swana and Ryan Kisor, pianists Jim Beard and Orrin Evans, organist Sam Yahel, guitarists Peter Bernstien, Jon Herington and Adam Rogers bassists John Patitucci, Anthony Jackson, Charles Fambrough, Reuben Rogers and Kenny Davis and drummers Ben Perowski, Bill Stewart, Brian Blade, Antonio Sanchez, Gregory Hutchinson, Donald Edwards and Dana Hall.
