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Doug Ellington

Bay Area Jazz Aficionados Host August 8, Online Musical Tribute For Eddie Gale

August 7, 2020

Bay Area Jazz Aficionados Host August 8, Online Musical Tribute Memorializing Eddie Gale, San Jose’s Ambassador of Jazz More than 20 Bay area jazz aficionados will present a livestream musical tribute, Saturday, August 8 from 2-4 PM (PST), 5-7 PM (EST), to memorialize their friend and mentor jazz trumpeter Eddie Gale. The Tribute sanctioned ...

Life

By Doug Ellington

Label: Llama Productions
Released: 2006
Track listing: Xenophobia; Song A; Anti-Trust; Looking Forward To Summer/Jeanne Louise; Billy

Doug Ellington & New Urban Groove: Life

by Todd S. Jenkins
January 24, 2006

Trumpeter Doug Ellington's new release conveys some interesting ideas with generally solid musicianship. As they are described in the liner notes, some of Ellington's notions are overly clever and border on pretentious, but all in all this is a very enjoyable effort. The opening “Xenophobia begins with a vibrant bass vamp that soon supports a bustling ...

Doug Ellington & the New Urban Groove: Life

by Dan McClenaghan
December 31, 2005

The musical bar is set pretty high when the artist's last name is Ellington. Trumpeter/composer Doug Ellington is, for the record, Duke Ellington's grand nephew; and with music pulsing through his bloodstream, Life, with his band the New Urban Groove, gets deep into jazz improvisation, and also deep into the groove.The ensemble thrives on ...

Life

By Doug Ellington

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2005
Track listing: Xenophobia; Song A; Anti Trust; Looking Forward to Summertime/Jeanne Louise; Billy's Dead; Raga Raspberry Shizzol; Pop; Life.