Artist: Don Ellis
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Essence
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Soaring
Year: 1973
Tracks: 8
Don Ellis at Fillmore
Year: 1970
Tracks: 11
Out Of Nowhere
Year: 1961
Tracks: 1
New Ideas
Year: 1961
Tracks: 1
How Time Passes
Year:
Tracks: 1
A talented trumpeter with a vivid melodic imagination and the willingness to adjudicate newfangled things, Don Ellis light-emitting diode some of the most colourful big bands of the 1965-75 period. After graduating from Boston Unversity, Ellis played in the self-aggrandising bands of Ray McKinley, Charlie Barnet and Maynard Ferguson (he was featured with the latter on "III More Foxes"), recorded with Charles Mingus and played with George Russell's sextet (at the same clock time as Eric Dolphy). Ellis light-emitting diode iV quartet and threesome roger Sessions during 1960-62 for Candid, New Jazz and Pacific Jazz, mix together federal Bureau of Prisons, disengage jazz and his interest in advanced classical music. However it was in 1965 when he commit together his first orchestra that he really started to make an picture in jazz. Ellis's boastful bands were distinguished by their strange instrumentation (which in its early days had up to trey bassists and trey drummers including Ellis himself), the leader's desire to investigate strange sentence changes (including 7/8, 9/8 and even 15/16), its from time to time buggy sense of humor (highlighted by an excess of off-key endings) and an openness towards using rock candy rhythms and (in later years) electronics. Ellis invented the four-valve trumpet and utilized a halo modulator and all types of waste electronic devices by the belated '60s. By 1971 his band consisted of an eight-piece brass section (including French horn and tuba), a four-piece wood plane section, a string quartette and a two-drum rhythm section. A by and by live edition fifty-fifty added a outspoken quartette.
Among Don Ellis's sidemen were Glenn Ferris, Tom Scott, John Klemmer, Sam Falzone, Frank Strozier, Dave MacKay and the brilliant pianist (straightforward from Bulgaria) Milcho Leviev. The orchestra's nearly memorable recordings were Fall, Live at the Fillmore and Weeping of Joy (all for Columbia). After hurt a mid-'70s heart and soul attack, Ellis returned to unrecorded acting, acting the "superbone" and a by and by edition of his prominent band featured Art Pepper. Ellis's last-place recording was at the 1977 Montreux Jazz Fesival, a year earlier his heart at last gave out.
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