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John Ellis
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John Ellis is one of New York’s premiere tenor saxophone voices. With more than 150 album credits as a sideman, John has recorded with a wide variety of artists such as Charlie Hunter, Robert Glasper, Darcy James Argue, Helen Sung, Kendrick Scott Oracle, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Sting. John was the 2nd place winner of the prestigious Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition in 2002, he was the recipient of three composition grants through The Jazz Gallery for the creation of new work (“Dreamscapes”, “The Ice Siren”, and “MOBRO”) and he was selected as the 2014 Make Jazz Fellow by the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica. John has released thirteen albums as a leader, three of those featuring his New Orleans-centered band Double-Wide, which has toured extensively and was featured on the Main Stage of the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival
Algures
By Gili Lopes
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Atalya; De Longe; Infant Eyes; Yali: The Fortress; Famara; Outubro;
Barrinha.
Personnel: Vinicius Gomes: guitar; Helio Alves: piano; Gili Lopes: double
bass; Ari
Hoenig: drums' Rogerio Boccato: percussion
Creole Orchestra
Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old School;Poison; Think Twice; I Wanna Be Evil; Holy City; Ten to One is Murder; Centerpiece; Douens; A Shade of Jade; Colorado River Song; Stompin' at the Savoy; Take my breath away; Night Train.
Up High, Down Low
By Alan Ferber
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: In Hindsight.
DAY
Label: Greenleaf Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Morning; Five-Thirty Strut; Thank You For this Day; Limeni Village; Look To The
Hills; The Mokes; Five-Thirty Strut; Missing You; Keep It Moving; It's Time To Sleep;
A.M. Hours.
John Ellis, Donald Vega & Gerald Cannon
by Joe Dimino
On the first episode of 2024, we begin with celebrated bassist Gerald Cannon live at Dizzy's Club in New York City. From there, we play releases from late 2023 and new music from 2024 including music from John Ellis, Kelly Jefferson, Mark Burnell and Christian Dillingham. Veteran musicians Donald Vega and Marius Van Den Brink also ...
Gili Lopes: Algures
by Doug Collette
Bassist, composer, musical director and producer Gili Lopes is nothing if not an astute judge of talent. After all, for Algures (from an old Portuguese word meaning 'somewhere'), he has recruited a redoubtable case of accompanists, not the least of whom is saxophonist John Ellis, he of fruitful collaborations with Charlie Hunter and Miguel Zenon among ...
Introspection
By Eunmi Lee
Label: You&Me Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gimmick; Suspicion; 5.19; Narcissism; Mr. Weird; Wavelength;
Azure.
Preludes
By Jeb Patton
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prelude in C Major; Prelude in F# Major; Prelude in A Minor; Prelude in G Minor; Prelude in B
Minor; Prelude in E Minor; Prelude in E Major; Prelude in D Major; Prelude to a Kiss.