I’ve been looking for Don Ellis
albums for a long time.
Before the Net, it was quite
impossible to find any LP of the Don Ellis Orchestra in
Then I indefinitely listened to
« Montreux » and « Underground » which I got
from my trumpet teacher.
I even did not know how many LP’s
were recorded, and I was searching desperately in every record store.
Then Napster came (and the
sleepness night also…) and I finally discovered all these pieces which I never
heard before!
I had the idea to create some kind
of « Don Ellis Greatest Hits » because I used to dream about such a
thing when
I was unlucky during my LP research
: what a joy it would have been if It could exist at that time…
Neither today, it doesn’t exist any
“Best” of the Don Ellis Orchestra, then I decided to
undertake this action !
The 1st compilation
regroups some extracts from my 12 preferred albums, beginning with « Live
in 3&2/3 4 time »
The 2nd shows the crazy
diversity in Don Ellis work: jazz, japan et star wars !
The 3rd is a collection
of some unavoidable pieces, which are away from the 2 compilations above
because of their long-lasting.
At last, after a statistic loop
about the number of pieces from each album among all the pieces in my 3
« Greatest Hits », I realized
that it was necessary to put some
albums higher up. It was just a pleasure to put this right, then go-ahead for
a 4th compilation
called FUN
JAZZ, in reference to the liner notes from Nick Di Scala in the
« Live at Montreux » CD.
Then you can click on every
compilation, in order to see the list of tracks ans also to discover the both
sides in real size!
“If one takes all the styles in jazz
harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments,
he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music
in the world” Don Ellis