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Live at Montreux

By Don Ellis
Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Open Wide; Loneliness; Future Feature; Go-No-Go; sporting Dance; Niner Two; Lyra; Eros; Arcturus. (Total Time: 73:53).
Don Ellis: Live at Montreux

by C. Michael Bailey
Living and Dying in 7/8 time... Don Ellis no more gave a damn about the status quo in Jazz than the man in the moon did. He was not so much an iconoclast as a creative, happy-go-lucky creator of interesting music who was not so much out to make a point as to try something new ...
The French Connection (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
By Don Ellis
Label: Nonesuch
Released: 2001
Anthony Ortega

by Robert Spencer
Here is a man who has played with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Bley, Quincy Jones, Don Ellis, Dinah Washington, and {{Ella Fitzgerald. Here is a man whose alto saxophone playing has been compared to Charlie Parker's and Ornette Coleman's--both with just cause. Here is a man whose Sixties sessions, long out of print ...
Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time
By Don Ellis
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Orientation; Angel Eyes; Freedom Jazz Dance; Barnum
Don Ellis: Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time

by Jim Santella
Don Ellis wrote and arranged in unusual meters, and yet was able to make each composition swing. He’d drive home the time signature to his audience by providing for congas, timbales, cowbell and three double basses to repeat the meter in an ostinato fashion. And of course the whole band would get into the action, accenting ...
Live At Monterey
By Don Ellis
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: 33 222 1 222; Passacaglia and Fugue; Crete Idea; Concerto for Trumpet; 27/16; Beat Me Daddy, 7 to the Bar; New Nine.
Don Ellis: Live At Monterey

by Jim Santella
In the liner notes Leonard Feather called Don Ellis the Stan Kenton of the 1970s." After earning a degree in music composition at Boston University, the trumpeter interned with several big bands, Latin jazz bands, Charles Mingus, and George Russell. Expanding his study of ethnomusicology at UCLA, Ellis formulated ideas about innovative ways to break the ...