Downbeat
★★★★½
"A voice you do not so much hear as recognize."
01Elliott Farmer · Vocalist
The voice that
arrived on time.
New album Eleven Eleven is a powerful debut from Elliott Farmer, a vocalist whose journey through family, faith, love, and perseverance has culminated in an album as timeless as the stories it tells.
Eleven Eleven
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
02The Arrival
A life,
rehearsed in full.
Some artists are discovered. Others are revealed. Elliott Farmer's story is the second kind — the slow, deliberate work of becoming who you were always meant to be.
01 · Atlantic City
A boy on the boardwalk, salt in the air, the sound of a piano drifting from an open hotel door.
02 · The Choir
Church pews on Sunday morning. The first time his voice ever lifted a room.
03 · Family
Marriage, children, the quiet, sacred work of becoming a father. Music waiting, patient, in the wings.
04 · The Work
Decades of showing up. The discipline of a life that taught him what the songs really mean.
05 · Harvey Mason
A call. A studio. A producer who heard something he had been singing toward his whole life.
06 · Eleven Eleven
Not a debut. An arrival. The voice, fully formed, finally on tape.
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Elliott Farmer
Produced by
Harvey Mason
Harvey Mason
Piano
Lawrence Hobgood
Lawrence Hobgood
ACOUSTIC / ELECTRIC BASSIST
Matt Clohesy
Matt Clohesy
Recorded at
Capitol Studios, LA
Capitol Studios, LA
03The Album
Eleven Eleven
Eleven songs. Forty-five minutes. A lifetime of listening. Produced by Harvey Mason, with Lawrence Hobgood on piano and Matt Clohesy on Acoustic / Electric Bass.
- Heatwave. A funky, jazzy take with a cool vibe-y bass line and double-time-ish subdivision — slower melodic rhythm than the original over a faster, more energetic feel.
11:11
04The Story of 11:11
Not superstition.
Alignment.
Timing
Faith
Purpose
Destiny
Arrival
Eleven Eleven is the moment the clock stops and you remember why you started. It is the hour the room goes quiet, and the voice you have been carrying your whole life finally has somewhere to go.
05The Music
A private
listening room.
Pour something slow. Dim the lights. Sit with the record the way it was made to be heard.
Now Playing
Eleven Eleven
Elliott Farmer · 4:42
06In His Own Words
"Dreams do not expire."— Elliott Farmer
"Some voices require time."— Elliott Farmer
"Life has a way of preparing you for the moment."— Elliott Farmer
07The Circle
The room he walked into.
An elite jazz ecosystem chose to lend its time and craft to this record. Every player on Eleven Eleven is a story of their own.
Producer · Drums
Harvey Mason
Four-time Grammy nominee. Co-founder of Fourplay.
Piano · Arrangements
Lawrence Hobgood
Longtime musical partner of Kurt Elling.
ACOUSTIC / ELECTRIC BASSIST
Matt Clohesy
Based in New York City. Australian Born.
08Live
On stage,
in the room.
Intimate jazz clubs. Performing arts centers. Private events. Festivals. The record is a beginning. The room is where it lives.
Booking & Private Engagements10The Gallery
Frames from a long arrival.
Quiet moments from the studio, the stage, and the road. Shot on film, printed slowly, chosen with care.
Studio A · Capitol
First take, Eleven Eleven
01 / 05
Birdland · NYC
Between sets
02 / 05
Test Pressing 01
Side A, lacquer cut
03 / 05
On Camera
A Voice Decades In The Making
04 / 05
Late Hours
Rehearsal, downtown
05 / 05
09Press
What they're saying.
JazzTimes
Editor's Pick
"Farmer doesn't sing the songs. He pays them their respect."
NPR Music
Best of the Year
"An album that argues, quietly, for the long way home."
The New York Times
Critics' Choice
"Patient, weathered, and gorgeously sung."
10The Film
Eleven Eleven
A Voice Decades In The Making
A Documentary · 2025Watch the Trailer →