With a nudge from Morphine frontman and Cambridge music legend Mark Sandman, Mike Rivard started his own project. Rivard’s Club d’Elf was an experiment, a strange hybrid of global rhythms and trip-hop ...

Near-death experiences can reboot the mind, separating the important from the trivial. It seems to have worked like that for bassist and composer Mike Rivard, founder and leader of Boston's ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Watching Club d’Elf perform at the Lizard Lounge feels like happening upon a group of friends carefully conducting a musical experiment. The players are strongly absorbed in their ...

Jazz collective Club d'Elf will play at the Spire Center for Performing Arts on May 8. Winners of a Boston Music Award in 2023, Club d'Elf has been helping audiences lose track of time for almost 27 ...

For the Boston, Massachusetts-based Club d'Elf, the boundaries are long gone; they may never have been there to start with. Almost twenty years ago, the group debuted with Live at The Lizard Lounge ...