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John Ellis UK

John Ellis is a pianist, composer and producer from the north of England. A founder member of The Cinematic Orchestra (contributing heavily to the albums Everyday and Man With The Movie Camera) he has also worked with the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen and DJ Vadim and led his own trio and 12 piece big band The John Ellis Big Band. In 2015 John collaborated with visual artist Antony Barkworth Knight for the Irwin Mitchell commission at the Manchester Jazz Festival and it is this collaboration that gave birth to Evolution: Seeds & Streams.

50 Years

By John Ellis UK

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hello & Goodbye; You Know It Makes Sense; Mandeville; Over The Top; Bitter Suite; Body & Soul; Victor; Naima; Elegant People; My Favourite Things; Show Me The Way To Go Home; Sax No End.

Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years

by Neil Duggan
November 24, 2023

The problem for John Ellis UK as a teacher of brass instruments in the West Riding of Yorkshire, was that there were few resources or equipment available for him to teach his students the skills they needed and take them to the level that would enable them to have a career in music. He wanted to ...

Phil Barnes' Best Releases of 2016

by Phil Barnes
December 30, 2016

It was tempting to view the events of 2016 in apocalyptic terms--even leaving politics to one side, the succession of beloved entertainers falling to the Grim Reaper was a salutary reminder of the limits of our own mortality. Some saw this as a sign of something ending, a watershed and not in a good way, but ...

John Ellis: Evolution - Seeds and Streams

by Phil Barnes
December 19, 2016

There's a temptation to assume with evolution that all of history has been leading to this point, that today's dominant species or situation will continue as such forever. Nonsense of course, think of the changes in the lifetimes of current generations and it's clear that evolution is not a defined end point but a dynamic, continuing ...