Jazz Articles about Ellen Weller

Bob and Ellen Weller: Point of Contact

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 31, 2008

La Circumvention, etichetta indipendente fondata nel 1998 dal sassofonista Jason Robinson, in Point of Contact documenta la musica dei coniugi Bob ed Ellen Weller, attivi soprattutto nell'area fra San Diego e Los Angeles. Dedicato alla memoria di Michael Brecker e registrato in studio fra il 2006 e il 2007, lo si potrebbe definire un disco “fatto in casa", non tanto perché autoprodotto (cosa ormai di norma), ma perché il figlio Charlie Weller funge da tecnico del suono e Ellen risulta ...

Ellen Weller: Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations

by Rex Butters
April 15, 2005

San Diego's Ellen Weller took time out from the remarkable Trummerflora Collective to create and record Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations, a compelling suite based on medieval Jewish possession myths extrapolated to consider the channeling of musical flow by improvising musicians. Her research team includes Vinny Golia and George Lewis, plus Trummerflora's Marcos Fernandes, Nathan Hubbard, and Lisle Ellis. The seventeen tracks feature different configurations ranging from duos to septets.

The first of six trios featuring Fernandes, Hubbard, and Weller ...

Ellen Weller: Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations

by Budd Kopman
February 28, 2005

With Spirits, Little Dreams and Improvisations, Ellen Weller has created an album that attempts to unite the mystical with the musical. The liner art has many hieroglyphic-type symbols, as well as spirals and other shapes that feel like they are trying to “cross over to the other side."? Jewish mysticism is clearly referenced as “dybbuk" is defined as “(Jewish mythology) a wandering soul that becomes attached to a living person to accomplish some task that it was unable to complete ...