Joe Elefante’s Wheel of Dharma Quintet
$20 in advance/ $24 at the door
Joe Elefante is a pianist, saxophonist, vocalist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
He has traveled four 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.
Joe’s latest project is Joe Elefante’s Wheel of Dharma, a jazz quintet featuring:
Freddie Hendrix – trumpet
Erena Terakubo – saxophone
Sameer Shankar – bass
Dave Heilman – drums