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Don Ellis (July 25, 1934 - December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer and leader of big bands who consistently explored the area of unusual time signatures. He held a Teacher's Certificate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, among other works contributing a score to 1971's The French Connection. July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ...
Year 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ...
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The French Connection is a 1971 Hollywood film directed by William Friedkin. ...
Influence on Jazz
Following the golden era of big band music, Don Ellis pushed the envelope of jazz by exploring unusual musical techniques including odd time signatures, electric string instruments, the human voice as an instrument, echoplex, fusion of Indian music and jazz, and the Rhodes piano. A big band, also known as a jazz orchestra, is a large musical ensemble that plays jazz music, especially Swing. ...
An Electric Musical Instrument (which, in the broadest sense, includes both electrically amplified acoustic instruments and electronic musical instruments) is one in which a loudspeaker is used as the main sound generator. ...
Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time. ...
Timeline and Samples Genres Classical (Carnatic and Hindustani) - Rock - Pop - Hip hop Awards Bollywood Music Awards - Punjabi Music Awards Charts Festivals Sangeet Natak Akademi – Thyagaraja Aradhana – Cleveland Thyagaraja Aradhana Media Sruti, The Music Magazine National anthem Jana Gana Mana, also national song Vande Mataram Music of the states Andaman and...
A Rhodes piano is a musical instrument, a brand of electric piano. ...
Eschewing the standard 3/4 and 4/4 meters, Ellis' band made the use of odd time signatures their trademark, and could skillfully play in 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, and 33 times. Particularly, this article is not about Hymn meters, as often found on hymn tunes Meter (UK spelling: metre) is the measurement of a musical line into measures of stressed and unstressed beats, indicated in Western music notation by a symbol called a time signature. ...
Ellis played 4-valve horns built by Holton that were capable of playing quarter tones. He experimented with Echoplex tape delay, octave followers, and ring modulators for psychedelic effects. The Don Ellis At Fillmore album captures him using these (perhaps to excess) and the rock-oriented crowd responds enthusiastically. Holton is a division of Leblanc Incorporated (a division of Conn-Selmer), and is Leblancs French horn line. ...
A quarter tone is an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone. ...
Delay is an audio effect which records an input signal to an audio storage medium, and then plays it back after a period of time[1]. The delayed signal may either be played back multiple times, or played back into the recording again, to create the sound of a repeating...
Ring modulation is an audio effect performed by multiplying two audio signals, where one is typically a sine-wave or another simple waveform. ...
Psychedelia in music (or also psychedelic music, less formally) is a term that refers to a broad set of popular music styles, genres and scenes, that may include psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, psychedelic ambient, psychedelic trance, psychedelic techno, and others. ...
In addition to his musical playing talents, Ellis also placed great importance on teaching music. He formed a youth band in Los Angeles, led by Glenn Ferris on trombone, to help ensure a ready supply of replacement talent for his main band. Artists such as Stu' Blumberg further credit Ellis for preparing them for the idiosyncrasies of unconventional music in film soundtracks. Tenor player Jim Snodgrass remarked, "I think in many ways Don was a teacher. One thing his music taught me was that I could play anything I absolutely had to." Glenn Ferris (born on June 27, 1950 in Los Angeles, California) is a jazz trombonist who has also worked in other fields. ...
The energizing nature of the music itself was a major influence on new musicians, inspiring young players to pursue music as a career after hearing the Don Ellis Orchestra.
Don Ellis Band An example of the typical configuration of the band was seen at the Monterey Festival: - Trumpets: Don Ellis, Glenn Stuart, Alan Weight, Ed Warren, Paul Lopez
- Trombones: Dave Wells, Ron Myers
- Bass Trombone: Terry Woodson
- Alto-soprano flute: Ruben Leon
- Alto-saxello-flute: Tom Scott
- Tenor-clarinets: Ira Schulman, Ron Starr
- Baritone-clarinet: John McGruder
- Organ/piano: Dave Mackay
- Basses: Ray Neopolitan, Chuck Domanico, Frank De la Rosa
- Guitar: Jay Graydon
- Drums: Steve Bohannon, Alan Estes
- Conga: Chino Valdes
The album The Very Best of Tom Scott was released in March 2006 by Verve records. ...
Recordings - New Sounds for the '60s [unreleased] (Enrica, 1960)
- ...How Time Passes... (Candid, 1960)
- Out of Nowhere (Candid, 1961)
- New Ideas (Prestige, 1961)
- Essence (Pacific Jazz, 1962)
- Jazz Jamboree 1962 (Muza, 1962)
- Don Ellis Orchestra Live at Monterey (Pacific Jazz, 1966)
- Live in 3 2/3 4 (Pacific Jazz, 1966)
- Electric Bath (Columbia, 1967)
- Shock Treatment (Columbia, 1968)
- Autumn (Columbia, 1968)
- The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground (Columbia, 1969)
- Don Ellis at Fillmore (Columbia, 1970)
- Tears of Joy (Columbia, 1971)
- Connection (Columbia, 1972)
- Soaring (MPS, 1973)
- Haiku (MPS, 1973)
- Music from Other Galaxies and Planets (Atlantic, 1977)
- Live at Montreux (Atlantic, 1977)
- "The French Connection / French Connection II" (Film Score Monthly)
Ellis also appeared on dozens of other albums with artists including Maynard Ferguson, George Russell, and Frank Zappa. Walter Maynard Ferguson (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpet player and bandleader. ...
George Allen Russell (born June 23, 1923) is an American jazz composer and theorist. ...
Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. ...
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