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Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins, Jim Black: The Secret Museum
by Glenn Astarita
According to saxophonist/composer Ellery Eskelin, The Secret Museum “refers to both the individual and collective experiences that all of us carry around in our daily lives”. And while Eskelin’s liners provide credence to the words behind The Secret Museum, the saxophonist along with sampler/accordion performer Andrea Parkins and drummer/percussionist Jim Black continue to amaze via their ...
Ellery Eskelin: Ramifications
by Glenn Astarita
Saxophonist/composer Ellery Eskelin continues his unique and rather intriguing plight on modern jazz with this latest offering titled, Ramifications. Here, the saxophonist performs with his long time musical associates, drummer Jim Black and accordionist, sampler expert Andrea Parkins; however, the addition of cellist Erik Friedlander and tuba maestro Joe Daley presents yet another dimension to the ...
Ellery Eskelin: Five Other Pieces (+2)
by Robert Spencer
Tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin just keeps getting better. On this disc he explores some of the music that has mattered to him over the years, and it's a wide range: from Mahavishnu John McLaughlin's “The Dance of Maya" through Coltrane's “India," Lennie Tristano's “April," and even George Gershwin's “Prelude II." In the liner notes Eskelin says, ...
Ellery Eskelin & Han Bennink: Dissonant Characters
by Robert Spencer
“And Han, to his audible pleasure, discovers a rare, fully equipped improviser he can't scare off, wear out, bury or give the slip." So says Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes to this little gem, which consists of ten tracks - ranging in time from twenty-four seconds to almost ten minutes - and all featuring an ...
Ellery Eskelin with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black: Kulak, 29 & 30
by Robert Spencer
Kulak, 29 & 30 was recorded live at Kulak, Berikon, Switzerland, on October 29 and 30, 1997, by the innovative trio of Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Andrea Parkins (accordion and sampler), and Jim Black (percussion). In the liner notes Ellery Eskelin explains that “I'm constantly looking for structural methods to change existing and assumed paradigms in ...
