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Elew at Bird's Basement Jazz Club
Courtesy of Birds Basement | Posted on August 8, 2019
Where
Bird's Basement Jazz Club
11 Singers Lane
Melbourne
Map
+61 1300 225 299
When
Sat, October 5, 2019
18:00
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Musicians
ELEW (Eric Lewis)
pianoAbout
Eric Lewis was an up-and-coming jazz pianist, a sideman for Wynton Marsalis, Elvin Jones, and recipient of the Thelonious Monk International Piano competition but he had an epiphany. The songs he was playing weren't speaking to him. On the other hand, there were contemporary rock songs that meant the world to him. Lewis re-emerged as ELEW, a revolutionary artist who combines virtuosic skill on the piano with an unprecedented openness to popular music.
Jazz pianists have always interpreted popular songs. But at some point, jazz detached from rock. ELEW has fused the two and created a new genre, rockjazz. ELEW has interpreted songs by Coldplay, Nirvana, Radiohead, the Foo Fighters, and Michael Jackson. ELEW plays the way a rock frontman treats the guitar, with a physical style that includes entering the instrument to pluck the strings directly....