Description
Release Date: 2025
Label: Enlightenment
Notes
Donald Johnson Ellis, born July 25, 1934, was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971’s The French Connection and 1973’s The Seven-Ups.
This four CD set features eight superb original Don Ellis albums, on which he performed as leader, all compiled on four CDs. Featuring this most experimental jazz musician’s most dynamic sounds, the compilation works beautifully as both an introduction to the great man’s work, and as a fine reminder of his matchless music.
Track List
Disc 1:
- How Time Passes
- Sallie
- A Simplex One
- Waste
- Improvisational Suite #1
- Sweet And Lovely
- My Funny Valentine
- I Love You
- I’ll Remember April
- Just One of Those Things
- You Stepped Out Of A Dream
- All The Things You Are
- Out Of Nowhere
Disc 2:
- Natural H.
- Despair To Hope
- Uh-Huh
- Four And Three
- Imitation
- Solo
- Cock And Bull
- Tragedy
- Johnny Come Lately
- Slow Space
- Ostinato
- Donkey
- Form
- Irony
Disc 3:
- Soloes
- What Is This Thing Called Love
- Lover
- Now’s The Time
- Some Place Else
- A Night In Tunisia
- Bombay Bossa Nova
- Sweet 19
- Blues For Hari
Disc 4:
- 33 222 1 222
- Passacaglia And Fugue
- Concerto For Trumpet
- New Nine
- Orientation
- Angel Eyes
- Freedom Jazz Dance
- Upstart
- Thetis
