The Best of Don Ellis Iconic Jazz Standards & Bebop Classics (Remastered) Don Ellis
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Album-Release:
1961
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11.03.2026
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- 1 My Funny Valentine (Remastered) 04:14
- 2 All the Things You Are (Remastered) 05:31
- 3 Just One of Those Things (Remastered) 03:16
- 4 I'll Remember April (Remastered) 03:28
- 5 Out of Nowhere (Remastered) 03:25
- 6 You Stepped Out of a Dream (Remastered) 03:32
- 7 I Love You (Remastered) 04:23
- 8 Sweet and Lovely (Remastered) 05:47
- 9 Tragedy (Remastered) 05:04
- 10 Imitation (Remastered) 07:43
- 11 Cock and Bull (Remastered) 07:03
- 12 Despair to Hope (Remastered) 04:14
- 13 Uh-Huh (Remastered) 08:00
- 14 Four and Three (Remastered) 04:59
- 15 Natural H. (Remastered) 04:23
- 16 Solo (Remastered) 02:06
Info for The Best of Don Ellis Iconic Jazz Standards & Bebop Classics (Remastered)
“Don Ellis is often associated with Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, and Cecil Taylor as a proponent of the avant-garde jazz of the late 1950s and early 1960s, However, he generally avoided a radical free-form style, seeking instead to infuse traditional big-band styles with novel or exotic influences, particularly in his use from 1964 of Indian and Near Eastern rhythms. Because he sometimes employed serial and aleatory procedures in his earlier style he has also been identified with the third stream movement; later he renounced these approaches.
Ellis's significance to jazz composition lies in his pioneering use of various techniques and resources: complex meters, the electronic distortion of timbre, amplified trumpet, and the human voice used instrumentally. Perhaps his most important contribution was the use of quarter-tone melodic structures, particularly his invention of a 12-pitch quarter-tone scale for notating blues-type melodic variants.
As a trumpet player Ellis possessed an agile technique and a fine tone. Influenced by Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, and Clark Terry, he evolved a personal, innovative style, often applying electric amplification and ring-modulated modification to the timbre of the instrument. From 1965 he showed an interest in alternative tuning systems - partly as a result of his interest in the music of Harry Partch - and acquired a quarter-tone trumpet which allowed him to achieve a new subtlety of expression, particularly in traditional blues passage-work.”
Don Ellis
Digitally remastered
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