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IN CONCERT - ELEW

Sunday, 28 January, 2024

IN CONCERT: ELEW! Admission: FREE

ELEW, 1999 winner of the Thelonius Monk International Piano Competition, has toured the world, recorded, and performed with Wynton Marsalis & the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Elvin Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Roy Hargrove, and John Hendricks among others.  A decade into his career, he reemerged as ELEW and began fusing his piano techniques with rock guitar-based ideas and experimental prepared piano methods, generating a powerful crossover brand he coined “Rockjazz”. Over the course of multiple award winning, critically acclaimed albums, ELEW has re-imagined songs by The Killers, Nirvana, Coldplay, and Michael Jackson to name a few. Throughout his career he has built an elite fanbase of distinguished leaders and celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Gerard Butler, Barack and Michele Obama, Prince Albert II, Will Smith, Eli Roth, Al Pacino, and many many others. Inspired by the European masters of Baroque counterpoint, ELEW has innovated the technique of simultaneously executing two independent melodies which precisely detail harmonic forms bursting with idiomatic verisimilitude and wide ranging historical references, all while flawlessly maintaining the idiosyncratic Afrocentric timingat the core of jazz improvisation. He has named this technique “Counterbop.” He has also created another innovation - “Piano Turntablism” - playing two different yet recognizable songs simultaneously as a DJ would, but on the piano.

www.elewrockjazz.com

Contact:

Rochelle Crolly

Phone: (570) 941-7624
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Houlihan-McLean Center, Aula

342 Jefferson Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510