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Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time

By Don Ellis

Label: Capitol Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Orientation; Angel Eyes; Freedom Jazz Dance; Barnum

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Don Ellis: Live In 3 2/3 /4 Time

by Jim Santella
July 1, 2000

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 ...

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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.

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Don Ellis: Live At Monterey

by Jim Santella
September 1, 1998

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 ...

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Don Ellis

By Don Ellis

Label: Orbis-Fabbri
Released: 1990
Track listing: How Time Passes (1960); A Simplex One (1960); Out Of Nowhere (1961); Sweet And Lovely (1961); Johnny Come Lately (1962); Form (1962); Angel Eyes (1962); Lover (1962); Indian Lady (1967); Open Beauty (1967); Alone (1967);

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