Nora's Ark, the jazz musical by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson, by Eli Yamin & The Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Nora's Ark, the jazz musical by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson

by Eli Yamin & The Brooklyn Youth Chorus

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1.	The Laboratory 00:52	buy track
2.	It's Gonna Rain 06:35	buy track
3.	The Storm 01:46	buy track
4.	Turtle Trot 00:17	buy track
5.	Cheetah Trot 00:09	buy track
6.	Stampede, The Chase 02:07	buy track
7.	Oath Of Honor 00:08	buy track
8.	Blues Interlude 01:21	buy track
9.	There's Blue All Around Me - Predator 03:58	buy track
10.	Blues Segue Into Sunrise 00:51	buy track
11.	There's Blue All Around Me - Prey 04:40	buy track
12.	Segue To Born Free 00:39	buy track
13.	Bunny Entrance 00:26	buy track
14.	Swinging On The Family Tree 03:02	buy track
15.	Cheetah Overboard, Turtles Overboard 01:19	buy track
16.	I See Blue 03:10	buy track

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This album was produced byThe Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative, a non profit organization founded in 2003 by a jazz musician and a schoolteacher. Meeting the need for high quality, age-appropriate material in tune with today's youth, Nora's Ark is a hilarious retelling of the biblical tale. Set on a modern cruise ship, Nora and company rescue animals from the Bronx Zoo. The show captures the challenges of growing up, the desire to be free, and is rich with lessons of cooperation in the ultimate struggle for survival against the threat of climate change.

This "original cast recording" features The Eli Yamin Jazz Quintet and members of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, New York City's leading professional training choir, to perform 16 original songs written especially for young people that tell the story of Nora's Ark. The songs range in style from blues and swing to bebop.

"The hippest move in secondary jazz education, ever." - Jazz Times Magazine

Recorded at world famous, Avatar Studios, New York City a/k/a Power Station

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released June 10, 2023

All vocal songs (tracks 2, 9, 11, 14, 16) by Eli Yamin and Clifford Carlson and published by Yamin Music (BMI)
All instrumentals by Eli Yamin, published by Yamin Music (BMI)

Eli Yamin Quintet:
Eli Yamin (conductor, piano)
Chris Byars (tenor, flute)
Mark McGowan (trumpet)
Pat O'Leary (bass)
Stefan Schatz (drums)

Eli Yamin is a Steinway Artist

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Jazz Singers background
Sofia D'Alessandro, Ariella De Los Santos, Daniel Epelbaum, Talia Fuchs, Raquel Klein, Anna Lentz, Isaac Lertola, Alice Markham-Cantor, Solomon McDougall, Jake Montagnino, Emma Orme, Nadege Philogene, Roselise Russo, Christina Santa Maria, Bolivia Williams.

Executive Producer: Kirk Imamura
Producer: Eli Yamin
Associate Producer: Clifford Carlson
Recording & Mixing Engineer: Jim Anderson
Assistant Engineers: Aki Nishimura, Bob Mallory, Fernando Lodeiro
Mastered by Alan Silverman at Arf! Productions
Record at Avatar Studios on March 6 &7, 2010
Vocal Coach: Charenee Wade
Assistant Vocal Coach: Meryl Zimmerman
Artistic Director The Jazz Drama Program: Eli Yamin
Artistic Director Brooklyn Youth Chorus: Dianne Berkun
Chorus Managers: Katie VanDerMeer, Nathalie Joachim
Cover Illustration: Daryl Long

Thanks to: Kirk Imamura and Avatar Studios, Jim Anderson, Dianne Berkun, Aviva Mitchell, Alan Silverman, Ingrid Baptista and all the supporters of The Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative.

Special thanks to Jeannette LoVetri of the Voice Workshop, whose indefatigable vision of collaboration between The Jazz Drama Program and Brooklyn Youth Chorus made this recording happen.

(c) & (p) 2010 by The Jazz Drama Program a/k/a Jazz Power Initiative

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Described as “eloquently bluesy” by Time Out NY, award winning New York pianist, Eli Yamin, a/k/a “Dr. E,” has traveled the world as a jazz and blues ambassador bringing good times to diverse audiences around the globe. With a doctorate in music, and a book published on singing the blues, Dr. E brings his work home to Harlem and the Heights w/ the non-profit org he founded, Jazz Power Initiative. ... more

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