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Joe Elefante

Born: July 21, 1978

Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

Joe has traveled 4 continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. Joe founded the Joe Elefante Big Band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil's Jazz Club for three years, and was featured on ABC's Nightline and in the Wall Street Journal.  He was named a Jazz Ambassador by the Kennedy Center, and has toured Eastern Europe and the Middle East as a jazz pianist for the U.S. State Department.  He has also been selected to the prestigious BMI Jazz Composers Workshop in NYC and the Betty Carter: Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center. He has also musically directed, conducted or played countless theater productions, including several at the Paper Mill Playhouse and Jersey Boys on Broadway and National Tour.

Wheel of Dharma

By Joe Elefante

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bad Dancing; Rocky; The One Who Knows; The Earth Is on Fire; Samadhi; Lion's Eyes.

#SongbookSeries

By Joe Elefante

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: You Do Something To Me; On A Clear Day; Day In, Day Out; In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning; I Wish I Were In Love Again; Hey There; Old Devil Moon; I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face; All Or Nothing At All; How Little We Know; I’ll See You Again; I’ve Got The World On A String; Some Other Time

Take Five with Pianist / Composer Joe Elefante

by AAJ Staff
November 5, 2024

About Joe Elefante: Joe has traveled 4 continents playing and conducting jazz and musical theater. Joe founded the Joe Elefante Big Band in 2001, which was the house band at Cecil's Jazz Club for three years, and was featured on ABC's Nightline and in the Wall Street Journal. He was named a Jazz Ambassador by the ...

Joe Elefante’s Wheel Of Dharma Quintet Releases New Album, Featuring Freddie Hendrix And Erena Terakubo

November 1, 2024

I’m thrilled to release the debut album of my latest project, Wheel of Dharma. This quintet, featuring Freddie Hendrix (trumpet), Erena Terakubo (saxophone), Sameer Shankar (bass), and Dave Heilman (drums), combines my original compositions with a focus on honoring jazz’s rich history while pushing its modern boundaries. Freddie, Dave, and I share a special bond that ...

Vanity Fair

By Joe Elefante

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005

The Joe Elefante Big Band: Vanity Fair

by Jack Bowers
February 7, 2005

Pianist/composer Joe Elefante's New York City-based big band has been quite favorably received by the local media, and now we can hear why--well-built ensemble, impressive soloists, splendid arrangements by Elefante, who assembled all the charts on the band's debut album, Vanity Fair, and wrote everything save Ray Noble's “The Touch of Your Lips." “Lips," usually played ...