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Don Ellis: Connection
by Jim Santella
In the early 1970s, Don Ellis reshaped his big band, dropping the three acoustic basses and substituted one Fender bass. His guitarist added echoplex effects and wah-wah sensations, taking the group away from its straight-ahead big band sound and plunging it into the electronic decade. The band got connected to pop culture. Ellis made ...
Don Ellis: Essence
by Michael McCaw
Essence is a gem of an album that warranted reissue long before now. Originally pressed for Pacific in 1962, it's firmly rooted in a lot of the sounds developed during the sixties--one foot steeped in the tradition and the other lunging towards new ideas. And like the best music, it retains its excitement some forty years ...
Live At Montreux
By Don Ellis
Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 2004
Track listing: Open Wide; Loneliness; Future Feature; Go-No-Go; Sporting Dance; Niner Two; Lyra; Eros; Arcturus.
Don Ellis: Live At Montreux
by Jim Santella
Recorded 27 years ago, this album from the Don Ellis library contains all the rhythmic and polyphonic excitement that you’d expect from such a pioneer in modern big band jazz. With this CD release, the original LP has been augmented by the addition of three previously unreleased tracks that came from the same Montreux performance.
Don Ellis, Dave Douglas, and the 'Progression' of Jazz
by Marshall Bowden
A few weekends ago I was watching reruns of the old Ed Sullivan Show on my local PBS station, when who should appear but Don Ellis. I had been a bit of an Ellis fan in my rock-influenced teenage years, and it was interesting and a bit surreal to suddenly see him on my television screen ...
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 ...
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