User:Steve Elmer

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Steve Elmer's passion is music. He has nurtured that passion since he first learned to play the drums in a Brooklyn junior high school when he was thirteen years old. Steve made his living as a drummer and percussionist in the New York City metropolitan area until he was twenty-five years old, when he decided to leave the music business, learn how to play the piano, and become a music teacher. His path since then has been anything but a straight line. However, Steve’s passion for music has been his guiding light along the way. He now spends the majority of his time doing the thing he loves most to do: making music.

In addition to playing solo piano and working with his own trio, quartet, and larger ensembles, Steve Elmer free-lances with many other jazz groups and singers around the New York City tri-state area. He has recorded four CDs: “Maxwell’s Torment (VAI Audio, 1992),” and “Show Business Is My Life (Koch Jazz, 1997),” with The Jazz Mentality, a quartet in which he was pianist, composer, and music director from 1990 to 1997, “Sam and Steve/Steve and Sam, Brothers in Swing” (http://www.samulano.com/html/sam-and-steve-steve-and-sam.html) a duo album with Steve on piano and Sam Ulano on drums featuring music from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, and his most recent recording entitled “I Used To Be Anonymous,” (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/steveelmertrio) featuring Steve on piano and composer of all nine tracks, Hide (hee-day) Tanaka on bass, and Shingo Okudaira on drums.

Steve’s original compositions are often dedicated to musicians and friends who have inspired him. Some tunes are: “Blues for Bobby T (for Bobby Timmons), “Easy Mr. B (for Billy Eckstein), “Here’s Jackie” (for Jacqueline Saygeh-Duggan, a September 11, 2001 victim), “Mr. Kenny D” (for Kenny Dorham), “The Monkwalk” (for Thelonious Monk), The Teddy Wilson Stomp” (for Teddy Wilson), “Autumn Haze” (for Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn), “Dance of the Drackots” (for Bud Powell and Olivia Stockard), “Constant Lee (for Lee Konitz) and “Mooseman” (an autobiographical reference).

Steve Elmer describes his musical approach as “Classic Jazz Piano”: play the original song, improvise on the melody, the harmony, and the form. Tell a story and make it swing one way or another.

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