Elan Mehler

b. NY, USA. Pianist Mehler’s early affects included some rock and roll groups and several jazz music artists. Among the second option had been Paul Bley, Expenses Evans, Duke Ellington, Expenses Frisell, Charles Mingus, Steve Reich and Kenny Wheeler. Furthermore to his function in america, Mehler in addition has appeared in European countries, including a yr’s spell in Paris as musical movie director at a little golf club. He also performed piano inside a resort pub in the Alps where he was noticed by English DJ and record maker Gilles Peterson who urged him having a documenting contract along with his Brownswood Recordings label. His 2007 debut Plan For Idea included ‘Muse Suite’, ‘Christina’s Music’ and a riveting edition of Gillian Welch’s ‘Elvis Presley Blues’. Frequently deeply introspective, Mehler’s items, which artfully mix jazz feelings with traditional stylization, attract his target audience through their smart and unsentimental romanticism. Users of Mehler’s quartet in the middle-00s included bass players Paul DeFiglia and Tod Hendrick, Fender Rhodes players David Moore and Scott Spivak, and tenor saxophonist Andrew Zimmerman. A delicate and persuasive pianist with unique concepts and design of execution, among the honours bestowed upon Mehler may be the International Association of Jazz Teachers’ New Britain composition award.