MIKE WT ALLEN’S SPACE ELEVATOR

TWENTY PERSON JAZZ-METAL ORCHESTRA

“There's everything you think you know about big band, and then there's Space Elevator” (Vancouver Jazz Fest)

Formed by composer and bandleader Mike WT Allen, the twenty person jazz-metal powerhouse that is Space Elevator exists as a vehicle to deliver Mike's ideas of what big band music can sound like in the modern age.

The music, composed and arranged entirely by Mike, travels between big band jazz, heavy metal, funk, experimental, and the avant-garde with “complex charts [that] combine crunching metal guitars with a billowing horn section and prog-rock keys” (Georgia Straight)

With a surprisingly successful sold out debut show in 2016 the band continues to fill venues with each performance!
Highlights include 2019’s Vancouver Jazz Fest performance and 2023’s “Space Jamboree” where we were joined on stage by 10 of Vancouver’s best vocalists and front-people playing to a packed Rio Theatre.

In 2019 Space Elevator released their self-produced debut album on the prestigious Redshift Records label.
2024 saw the band head back into the studio, this time working with the illustrious Ben Kaplan to record their next offering, which will be available late 2025.