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Don Ellis at Fillmore
By Don Ellis
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Final Analysis; Excursion II; The Magic Bus Ate My Doughnut; The Blues; Salvatore Sam; Rock Odyssey; Hey Jude; Antea; Old Man's Tear; Great Divide; Pussy Wiggle Stomp.
Don Ellis: Essence
by C. Andrew Hovan
A very interesting character, trumpeter and bandleader Don Ellis is probably best known for the big bands he led in the late '60s, which served as a vehicle for his experiments with electronics and unusual time signatures. Albums such as Electric Bath and Live in 3 2/3/4 Time are brimming with the excitement of an era ...
Don Ellis: Essence
by Jim Santella
Originally released in 1962 on Pacific Jazz as P-55, this reissue has been a long time coming. It reveals the kernel of Don Ellis that later blossomed into a broad-based big bandleader who straddled the fence between mainstream jazz and free jazz. His intellectually complex compositions have always knocked the socks off listeners and performers alike.
Don Ellis: Don Ellis at Fillmore
by Jim Santella
What a memorable album. I guess I grew up on this one. That was back when my hair still had color, my knees both worked quite well, and I still had that “fresh out of college" attitude that took me off in many directions at once. Don Ellis takes you off on a whirlwind ...
Don Ellis: Tears of Joy
by Jim Santella
Recorded at San Francisco's Basin Street West in 1971, Tears of Joy marked a subtle change in the Don Ellis big band. The trumpeter was gradually drifting toward popular music, and he was beginning to use the new electronic technology to its best advantage. However, he continued to load each arrangement with the kinds of musical ...
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 ...
