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EvilloT

Artist: EvilloT

   Genre(s):
Metal

Discography:

Power Symphony

Year:
Tracks: 7

U2 reissues packed with rarities

Don Ellis

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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Killers' hit voted number one driving song

'Mr Brightside' by The Killers has topped a recent survey of UK motorists' favourite songs to listen to when driving.
The track, which is taken from the group's 2004 debut album 'Hot Fuss', beat off competition from Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero' to the number one spot.
Other popular tracks included 'Born To Be Wild' by Steppenwolf; 'American Pie' by Don McLean and Cyndi Lauper's 1989 hit 'I Drove All Night'.
The poll was organised by insurance company Elephant, and more than 1,000 motorists took part and found a number of differences between male and female drivers' favoured driving.
Tyler's hit topped the list of womens' favourite driving songs, while men opted for The Killers.
The overall top ten songs for British drivers were:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City6. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild7. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night8. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger9. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally
The ten favourite driving songs for women were:1. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero2. Killers: Mr Brightside3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight 4. Don McLean: American Pie5. Cyndi Lauper: I Drove All Night6. Survivor: Eye Of The Tiger7. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City8. Stealer's Wheel: Stuck In The Middle With You 9. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild 10. Europe: The Final Countdown
And men chose the following ten tracks:1. Killers: Mr Brightside2. Don McLean: American Pie3. Phil Collins: In The Air Tonight4. Guns 'n' Roses: Paradise City5. Steppenwolf: Born To Be Wild6. Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run7. Talking Heads: Road to Nowhere8. Lenny Kravitz: Are You Going To Go My Way?9. Bonnie Tyler: Holding Out For A Hero10. Wilson Pickett: Mustang Sally