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Ellery Eskelin
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For the past forty years Ellery Eskelin has been at the forefront of the global creative improvised music scene. Based in New York City, he has traveled widely, performing, recording and amassing a personal and iconoclastic body of work with the view that jazz and American music is an ongoing creative process with great relevancy to our time. In this pursuit Eskelin consistently delivers a passionate musical expression to the listening public.
Ellery Eskelin (born 1959) was raised in Baltimore and began playing the tenor saxophone at age ten, inspired by his mother "Bobbie Lee" who played Hammond B3 organ professionally in the early sixties. In 1983 Eskelin moved to New York City and in 1987 began recording with the cooperative group Joint Venture which also began his exposure on the European international touring circuit. Soon after, Eskelin formed the first of many projects as a leader beginning with a trio comprised of bassist Drew Gress and drummer Phil Haynes followed by a short lived group featuring Joe Daley on tuba and Arto Tuncboyaciyan on bakdav drums and percussion. In 1992 Eskelin joined drummer Joey Baron’s group, "Baron Down" (instrumentation of drums, trombone and saxophone), an experience that proved to be an important catalyst in his own work fostering an increased interest in new and unusual instrumentation. In 1994 Eskelin formed the group most often associated with him including accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black. To date he has written over 50 compositions for this group, each of which has been documented on a series of CD releases on the Swiss hatHUT record label. The band has toured regularly and performed hundreds of concerts in the US, Canada and throughout Europe during the past twenty years.
I Dischi del 2025 secondo Ludovico Granvassu
by Ludovico Granvassu
Immortalare la bellezza e la varietà del jazz pubblicato nel 2025 attraverso una “top ten" appare tanto arduo, vano--e alla fine deludente--quanto cercare di fotografare un tramonto sulla costiera amalfitana usando una rudimentale fotocamera digitale e facendo un forellino sul copriobiettivo. Certo, una foto verrà scattata. Potrebbe persino dimostrare che eri lì, in quel momento, quando ...
Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025
by Ludovico Granvassu
Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...
About (or On), First Visit
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2025
Track listing: About (or On)...Rumination (Ellery Eskelin) Memories of You (Eubie Blake); About (or On)...Monk (Ellery Eskelin) Off Minor (Thelonious Monk); About (or On)...Conjuring (Ellery Eskelin) Witchcraft (Cy Coleman); About (or On)...Desire (Ellery Eskelin) Lover Come Back to Me (Sigmund Romberg); About (or On)...Endless (Ellery Eskelin) How Deep is the Ocean (Irving Berlin); About (or On)...Celestial (Ellery Eskelin) The Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton & Sonny Burke); About (or On)...Happenstance (Ellery Eskelin) Just One of Those Things (Cole Porter); About (or On)...Monk (Ellery Eskelin) We See (Thelonoius Monk); About (or On)...Aspiration (Ellery Eskelin) My Ideal (Richard A. Whiting & Newell Chase); About (or On)...Regret (Ellery Eskelin) After You've Gone (Turner Layton); About (or On)...Flame (Ellery Eskelin) Flamingo (Ted Grouya & Edmund Anderson).
LAC Trio: L'ala incerta della farfalla
by Neri Pollastri
Ispirato dal desiderio di esplorare “il potere creativo e rivoluzionario dell'inazione, la sua bellezza e ricchezza come risposta e alternativa a una società ossessionata dalla produttività e l'autottimizzazione," questo album del LAC Trio --dalle iniziali dei nomi dei suoi membri Leonardo Franceschini, Andrea Leone e Carlo Longo --si sviluppa attorno all'improvvisata title track e vede quattro ...
Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Mark Corroto
I have an alternative to the year end list. I prefer a “what I listened to most this past year" list. Even so, the discs below would likely make a “best of" list, but that's not my preference. These are discs (and the dreaded digital files) I kept on a heavy rotation. For instance, I am ...
Ellery Eskelin: About (or On), First Visit
by Stefano Merighi
All'interno di un catalogo variegato ma di sicuro assottigliato negli ultimi anni, il tenorsassofonista Ellery Eskelin ha dato prova di controllare una cultura musicale ampia e sofisticata, nutrita sia dalla tradizione gospel e blues che dalle decostruzioni postmoderne. I due dischi di cui la ezzthetics stavolta meritoriamente cura la riedizione, pubblicati nel 2011 e ...
Ellery Eskelin Trio New York: About (or On), First Visit
by Mark Corroto
It might be tempted to say that Ellery Eskelin's Trio New York is deconstructing the eleven standards on the two-disc set About (or On) First Visit. But that would be a misreading. This is not a breakdown of classic material in search of alternative meanings or structural analysis. Rather, Eskelin, alongside organist Gary Versace and drummer ...
4 Horns & What? – The Complete American Recordings
Label: Corner Store Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
A'lil Iowa Get-Down; El-Smoke; Ballad For Heike; Point Period; Atmospheres; Corner Store Strut; Alone; Blues for Israel.
CD 2:
Holler 4 Horns; Out of the Bowels; Sweep; Goofus' Step; Some Sick Slick; Where Now; Adrienne's Jazzmarchrag; Phantoms; Eclipse.
CD 3:
Don Byron intro; Holler4Horns; A Little Iowa Get-Down; Phil Speaks 1; Goofus' Step; Saeta; Phil Speaks 2; West Virginian Blues; Waltz for Gerry (Last Dance); Phil Speaks 3; Eclipse.
Music for Chamber Trio
Label: Rowhouse Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; Part 6; Part 7.
