Who (and what) defines the Boston-based, dub-jazz Club d'Elf is an enigma. At the core, the "group" is bassist and composer Mike Rivard and drummer Dean Johnston. Rivard has far-flung history ranging ...

In overseeing Club D'Elf since its inception over 25 years ago, founder-leader-bassist Mike Rivard has maintained a core lineup around which has revolved a colorful cast of collaborators as eclectic ...

HUDSON, N.Y. -- Club d'Elf is a band without members, playing music without category. It's by no means a solo project -- group interplay is key -- but bassist, musical ringleader and seer-in-chief ...

Boston-based jazz-dub-world music collective Club d’Elf have announced they’ll release their third full-length album, You Never Know, on April 1. The double album spans 10-tracks and showcases the ...

‘Live at Club Helsinki,” the new release from Club d’Elf, is that rarest of documents: something that captures a highly improvisational band working its magic and somehow bottles the feeling of ...

Club d’Elf have unveiled its plans for a 25th-anniversary tour, which is set to kick off at The Stone Church Music Club in Newmarket, N.H., on Jan. 13, before rolling through select midwest and east ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 19, Moroccan dub trance jazzists Club d’Elf (featuring guitarist David Tronzo!) will make a stop at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club on Congress Street for what will serve as the band’s ...

Those words can be a pandemic or post-pandemic mantra. Or a grand philosophical principle. Or a mission statement for making art. They can be all those things, and the name of the Boston-based, ...

Club d’Elf is an ever-shifting phenomenon — a musical ensemble of rotating membership led by convener Mike Rivard. Onstage he’ll sometimes stand in a circle of musicians, anchoring an ...

Boston-based Club D’elf produces jazz that traverses many genres and styles. Its trance-like grooves and improvised inventions includes trace elements of early Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, “Bitches ...

For twenty-five years now, Boston-based dub-jazz collective Club d'Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time while creating mesmerizing musical chimeras that weave their distinct, Moroccan ...