Don Ellis 1977 (01) Open Wide

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  • Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
  • from his appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 8, 1977.
    Don Ellis - Trumpet, Composer, Arranger
    Reeds - Ann Patterson, Ted Nash, James Coile, Jim Snodgrass
    Trumpets - Glenn Stuart, Gil Rather, Jack Coan
    French Horn - Sidney Muldrow
    Trombone - Alan Kaplan
    Bass Trombone - Richard Bullock
    Tuba - Jim Self
    Keyboards - Randy Kerber
    Bass - Leon Gaer, Darrell Clayborn
    Drums - David Crigger
    Congas - Chino Valdes
    Percussion, Drums and Mallets - Michael Englander
    Percussion, Mallets and Timpani - Ruth Ritchie
    Violins - Pam Tompkins, Lori Badessa
    Viola - Jimbo Ross
    Cello - Paula Hochhalter

Комментарии • 123

  • @spoiledmushrooms24
    @spoiledmushrooms24 9 лет назад +47

    My Uncle is the bass player... Thank the Creator for Don Ellis And Uncle Darrel no one plays like you! Thanks for Great Music and i hear you two playing in Heaven!!!

    • @kspreetheunicorn6243
      @kspreetheunicorn6243 8 лет назад +3

      i dont believe in god but im guess im kinda spiritual
      so im happy too that everything that happened in this world brought us someone like this even if he was taken from us so young
      anyways love to yall

    • @kspreetheunicorn6243
      @kspreetheunicorn6243 8 лет назад +2

      oh and send your uncle my lobe too will you

    • @SomeFreakingCactus
      @SomeFreakingCactus 7 лет назад +2

      And thank your Uncle! I'm a high schooler, I play bass with my school's jazz band, and we all have A BLAST every time we play this song, including me. The syncopation on the bass part is crazy wacky and funky. I love it!

    • @elmondo033057
      @elmondo033057 5 лет назад +2

      Man, your uncle is AWESOME!!!

    • @littledoodle5689
      @littledoodle5689 2 года назад

      blessings to a legend!!

  • @TOMGUIDO66
    @TOMGUIDO66 4 года назад +6

    Jim Snodgrass - baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, piccolo, flute, oboe - was my 7th grade health teacher and one of the coolest cats on campus!

  • @vaughnnark1733
    @vaughnnark1733 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wonderful! May Don's most adventurous Spirit rest peacefully knowing what a gift 🎁 🙏 his talents were to the world 🌎
    most respectfully..Vaughn 🎺

  • @cliffworks748
    @cliffworks748 3 года назад +2

    came to my college El Camino in 71 blew our socks off.. polytonal polymetric genius

  • @TheRhythmDoctor
    @TheRhythmDoctor 4 года назад +10

    Wow, I can't believe I didn't find this sooner. I have the LP, and the reissued CD, and I know every note of this piece. Leave to Don Ellis to take a 4/4 melody and subdivide it so it sounds like 33/16! (A noteworthy time signature among Don Ellis fans.) I was so fortunate to get to see this band at Blues Alley in Washington, DC just before they took off for Montreux that year, and was counting the days until the album came out. Next thing I knew, he had passed away. We lost Don Ellis way too soon!

  • @whatscookingresearch
    @whatscookingresearch 2 года назад +1

    I'm 67. I was 22 when he played this. I was blessed to be introduced to Don Ellis' music by a personal friend of his who was my first music teacher, Jerry Moore, when I began playing trumpet at 10 years old. By 16 I was in the highschool jazz band and Jerry Moore then was the jazz band director at College of the Redwoods Eureka, California. Mr. Moore also had a community jazz band which met each Thursday at 7 pm. His two sons played in our highschool jazz band directed by a man who had played trombone in the Woody Herman band in the 1940s. Jerry Moore wrote a band piece named Thursdays at 7 which was in 7/4. We performed it in the highschool jazz band. Later that year 1970-71 he convinced Don to have his band perform in podunk Eureka. I was able to meet Don personally before the show. He justifiably wondered if the ticket sales would even cover the cost of the performance. But the performance was fantastic. The selections were a mix of songs recorded on the Don Ellis at Fillmore and Tears of Joy albums.
    I was married in 1978 and my children grew up listening to Final Analysis.

  • @vaughnnark1733
    @vaughnnark1733 Год назад +1

    Beautiful! Don gave his unique concept and all of his heart ❤️ and soul to his music. May his Spirit rest peacefully 🙏 for eternity. His sincere admirer always..Vaughn 🎺

  • @BillSU77
    @BillSU77 7 лет назад +10

    Ellis one of the all time bests. Chain Reaction is my favorite.

  • @PercussionImprovisations
    @PercussionImprovisations 13 лет назад +15

    Literally brings tears to my eyes, it's so good.

  • @Mike-uv1zo
    @Mike-uv1zo 4 года назад +3

    Man I love this song. We played on the field in marching band in high school. Had a complete blast with the vocals with 300 kids all memorizing the riffs. The music was fun and the drill was perfect.

  • @nrex06
    @nrex06 12 лет назад +21

    I can't help but think of Chase's "Open Up Wide" when I see the title of this song. It's sad to think that two great trumpet players were taken from the world too soon.

    • @nemo227
      @nemo227 3 года назад +4

      Too soon but they left us with treasures to enjoy.

  • @billsornsin
    @billsornsin 6 месяцев назад +1

    Such a unique and creative talent, we lost him far too soon ❤

  • @DeanClarkHall
    @DeanClarkHall 4 года назад +8

    He had started paving the way, in the years earlier, for the likes of Mangione who reaped all the reward. "Open Wide" should have been every bit as big as "Land of Make Believe". The pioneers rarely get their due.

    • @StooGP
      @StooGP 3 года назад +3

      Ellis won a Grammy Award for scoring The French Connection and Mangione remains elevator music done to the highest apex. Ellis' legacy is doing just fine. :)

  • @oldschooldrumcorps
    @oldschooldrumcorps 10 лет назад +22

    Don Ellis' music was a gift to the Drum & Bugle Corps activity. Many Corps played his music in the 70's and is still being played today by Corps at all competitive levels. Thanks to the 27th Lancers for introducing me to his music, and to all jazz radio stations who continue play his music

    • @pauletteinboston6894
      @pauletteinboston6894 9 лет назад +3

      oldschooldrumcorps I played mellophone in the 27th Lancers Alumni and was part of the quintet playing the "telephone call" part!

    • @oldschooldrumcorps
      @oldschooldrumcorps 9 лет назад +2

      If I could do it all over again, I would've Marched 27 by any means!

    • @amyrhees6527
      @amyrhees6527 3 года назад +2

      27th should’ve won in 1980. Loved their arrangement of this piece, glad I found the original

    • @ryancox5097
      @ryancox5097 Год назад +2

      Nobody's played his music since Devs and Madison in 1993, but I feel you.

    • @jeffgroth3092
      @jeffgroth3092 Год назад +1

      @@ryancox5097 I think the Crossmen did Strawberry Soup in 2022. But yes, It's been way to long since we heard a Don Ellis chart in DCI. Madison was going to play Strawberry Soup again in 2020 before the pandemic. If you search Madison 2020 they have the chart they were going to play. It's on youtube.

  • @alanbryant3016
    @alanbryant3016 Год назад +1

    I saw this band many years ago in The Ronnie Scott jazz club in London. I was totally blown away by his sound. RIP DON😢

  • @tooter1able
    @tooter1able Год назад +1

    He was the first to introduce my head to complex rhythms

  • @earlviney2820
    @earlviney2820 8 лет назад +7

    Don Ellis music one word. FUN!! and that's all that music is. let's all have a good time!

    • @shmowzow458
      @shmowzow458 7 лет назад

      Earl Viney right with you man!

  • @emilywest5032
    @emilywest5032 12 лет назад +3

    My high school is playing a shortened version of this song for our marching season. So far we sound pretty great and my best friend gets to play that epic trumpet solo

  • @remiremi8570
    @remiremi8570 6 лет назад +3

    Today is the first time I listened to Don Ellis. What a Master is this man! Bless him up there!

  • @wyndhleodumegwu253
    @wyndhleodumegwu253 8 лет назад +5

    This is my #1 modern Orchestra as well as #1 composer, arranger, leader and conductor.
    His progressive style of "trumpetizing" and conducting must have been adored and admired by especially the latter-day, "electronic" Miles Davis and the "Hi-Lite Jiving" Wayne Shorter of today Funk-fusion.
    Don Ellis was time ahead; don't you think?😠
    It is time overdue for a renaissance of his genre - as was presented by him and his musical "troupe".
    Long live Mr. Don Ellis!😠
    I

  • @albertlilly
    @albertlilly 3 года назад +2

    Had the record, later a CD. Have never seen this video. 42 years later, a video that shows it as it happened. Amazing...

  • @psmithsmsllc3272
    @psmithsmsllc3272 9 лет назад +4

    Had the opportunity to catch Don and the band during the 70's at the Golden Banana north of Boston. They had just returned from Europe and the horns were delayed in shipping for days!......they arrived just before the show, and the guys tore into the music...two nights of witnessing up close a Haley's Comet of the era. Thanks, Don!.....miss you

  • @donpolzo3606
    @donpolzo3606 3 года назад +5

    Important to keep his music alive, Bill Chase, Maynard, so many horn players. Arturo Sandoval keeps going.

  • @kurtpeterson4147
    @kurtpeterson4147 7 лет назад +4

    I played in a local big band called the BVS and had Don as a guest conductor and artist. What a ball playing with him back in the 70's.

  • @dgdiyer1191
    @dgdiyer1191 4 года назад +3

    Now I know what the performance of this chart on my Montreux album looks like! I never saw Don Ellis live but was fortunate to pick up a number of his albums in the budget bins back in the day.

    • @judylea1671
      @judylea1671 3 года назад +1

      Saw him live several times was past exciting.

    • @TripleBerg
      @TripleBerg 3 года назад

      @@judylea1671 Saw he and his orchestra perform around 1974. Two hours full on, 10-minute break, played another 90 minutes. Amazing performance. Sad he passed so young.

  • @annettegutsche2110
    @annettegutsche2110 3 месяца назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @lennartcordesius665
    @lennartcordesius665 11 лет назад +2

    HIS MUSIC BLOW ME TO KINGDOM COME HE DIED ALL TO YOUNG.
    THE GODS ARE PULLING HOME
    THOSE THEY LOVE. R.I.P

  • @littledoodle5689
    @littledoodle5689 2 года назад

    so beautiful man this that real music eardrum healers

  • @jazzandbeyond7549
    @jazzandbeyond7549 7 лет назад +2

    The most forward thinking jazz musician of the 20th century!

  • @djacobs880
    @djacobs880 6 лет назад +1

    Unbelievably beautiful and technically outstanding!!!

  • @MichaelWashingtonAE
    @MichaelWashingtonAE 4 года назад +1

    Man starting it off with konnakol and a solid tihai! Can't believe there is video of this stuff!!

  • @russellfillis6864
    @russellfillis6864 4 месяца назад

    Dave my bro should love this...i love it more ...thanks Don

  • @henrygleditschkleive1299
    @henrygleditschkleive1299 4 года назад +1

    Great stuff. We thried to play this tune in Sogn and Fjordane Storband in in Norway the 80's but even though it was hard, it was great fun!

  • @lizcenterfield1963
    @lizcenterfield1963 11 месяцев назад +1

    Why is he turning his pages backward at 6:08? A repeating section?
    Great stuff, and on my mother's birthday! (I just played it for her last weekend)

  • @bimmerfun
    @bimmerfun 12 лет назад +4

    Wow! I've never seen this performed live! Always dug this piece.

  • @DavesTrumpet
    @DavesTrumpet 11 лет назад +10

    Oh, wow, I have this on LP but have never seen footage of the concert. Thanks for sharing this!

    • @assignmentearth2899
      @assignmentearth2899 4 года назад +1

      Yeah, same here. Was like a gift when I discovered this existed.

    • @nemo227
      @nemo227 3 года назад

      This adds the cake under the frosting.

    • @BarackBoxen
      @BarackBoxen 7 месяцев назад

      Same here, brings tears

  • @summersrl
    @summersrl 13 лет назад +3

    It is great to see footage of one of my heroes from High School. I saw the Ellis Band three times in the early 1970s. Fantastic shows. Thanks for posting this.

  • @andyydna101
    @andyydna101 5 лет назад +1

    Favorite musician of all time

  • @Hyslop65
    @Hyslop65 3 года назад

    Heard Don Ellis with this band at the Depot in Minneapolis which is now " First Avenue " and famous for Prince. Also heard Don Ellis when he fronted for the Stan Kenton Band when Kenton was ill, also here in Minneapolis. Great talent and died way too young.

  • @whirlawaysteven
    @whirlawaysteven 13 лет назад +4

    awesome!

  • @elmondo033057
    @elmondo033057 13 лет назад +1

    this is the concert I missed!!! I was in Heidelberg Germany at the time with the 33rd Army band and I didn't make it. CRAP!!! Thanks so much for posting it, i think he peaked with this album and concert, just fantastic!!!! God Bless you for posting this!!!!!!

  • @bobbly7132
    @bobbly7132 2 месяца назад

    I never think of Ellis as a particularly high-note artist, but he hits that early night note as cleanly, clearly, and beautifully as Maynard or Biviano.

  • @trumpet95
    @trumpet95 11 лет назад

    Don Ellis was by far one of the most creative composer, musician, and great trumpet player!!! Amazing!! these charts are very hard to write and make them sound good. but man he is amazing

  • @RURALWARROOM
    @RURALWARROOM 13 лет назад +1

    WOWOWOWOWOWWWW!!! FANTASTIC! OH YEAH!!!

  • @HomeBuyersAgent
    @HomeBuyersAgent 13 лет назад +1

    Fantastic. So much fun, such a great sound!

  • @luisfraire5319
    @luisfraire5319 4 года назад

    Uno de los grandes del big band...super compositor arreglista y musico..super grabacion en vivo..

  • @martinotagliani
    @martinotagliani 6 лет назад +3

    For those unaware, this is samba!

  • @alanwitton5039
    @alanwitton5039 3 года назад

    Fantastic

  • @pippoagostino3668
    @pippoagostino3668 6 лет назад

    Very good thanks

  • @donaldmattia1491
    @donaldmattia1491 6 лет назад

    Don your still the greatest!!RIP

  • @jazzjanne1
    @jazzjanne1 13 лет назад +1

    I have a couple of Don Ellis LP:s, but I´ve never seen him "live"
    Janne from Sweden

  • @jazzjanne1
    @jazzjanne1 13 лет назад +1

    I have a couple of Don Ellis LP:s, but I´ve never seen him "live"

  • @Dutchman536
    @Dutchman536 9 лет назад +1

    Brilliant ,with Live at the Filmore at his top , do agree with Becky Coleman , that would be my first stop , shame he died so young

  • @baird5776mullet
    @baird5776mullet 8 лет назад +1

    AWB was there that year also.

  • @jonathangroove
    @jonathangroove Год назад

    Misericórdia que músicos bom

  • @mario64guy
    @mario64guy 12 лет назад +6

    Luke Skywalker on vocals at 1:00

  • @mjl451
    @mjl451 9 лет назад +2

    Certified. Bad. Asses. Damn that's hot

  • @ToTheSummitkicksass
    @ToTheSummitkicksass 8 лет назад

    this is amazing, Thank you

  • @detheridge1951
    @detheridge1951 12 лет назад +1

    Might this concery eventually be available on DVD? This is one of my favourite albums and I've been wondering what it actually looked like for years! Many thanks for this!!

  • @trumpetvids
    @trumpetvids 11 лет назад

    Anyone know what the title of the video this comes from is?

  • @edsondrums
    @edsondrums 7 месяцев назад

    Праздник Музыки!❤

  • @jaymz168
    @jaymz168 11 лет назад +1

    That was like 6 years before this concert.

  • @1jondee
    @1jondee 4 года назад

    brilliance

  • @jirehcalo
    @jirehcalo 9 лет назад +2

    Electrifying.

  • @benthead
    @benthead 9 лет назад +12

    Don Ellis reinvented the concept of the "Big Band".
    Thank god Frank Zappa opened the door.

    • @domitype
      @domitype 8 лет назад +7

      +benthead Ellis hit Monterey hard in 1966 with his big band and never looked back. Zappa didn't get into "large" jazz ensembles until a few years after that. I like them both, have all available recordings! I was in a high school jazz band in those mid 60s years - it was an exciting time.

    • @timwolf5497
      @timwolf5497 7 лет назад

      Speaking of Zappa, is that him on the right at 1:02? It sure looks like him.

  • @jdugan2902
    @jdugan2902 4 года назад +1

    I grew up on Don Ellis. Maynard was good, but Don Ellis was much more experimental. If you like spaced out jazz check out "live at Philmore".

  • @davidwood5933
    @davidwood5933 2 года назад

    It reminds me too much of Chuck's tunes... The inspiration for them?

  • @ElectricBathhouse
    @ElectricBathhouse  11 лет назад

    This was never commercially released - ebh

  • @randycloud1008
    @randycloud1008 10 лет назад

    Don rules!

  • @trumpetg1
    @trumpetg1 11 лет назад +1

    A true virtuoso, playing and writing. He'd be dead in a year :(

  • @sharpteeth17x929yw
    @sharpteeth17x929yw 4 года назад

    Was that the band that was on the Poseidon Adventure staring Gene Hackman just before the big wave hit the side of the ship?

    • @davidgistelli8384
      @davidgistelli8384 3 года назад

      If I remember correctly, Don Ellis did the sound track for "the French Connection" …I think Gene Hackman was in that.

  • @iplayfhorn
    @iplayfhorn 2 года назад

    Is he playing a flugelhorn with a French horn mouthpiece?

  • @ggans2339
    @ggans2339 5 лет назад

    one thing for sure: they had better sound engineers those days! Band and Ellis are on fire

  • @rattyboi7646
    @rattyboi7646 5 лет назад

    That’s what he said

  • @stretch54
    @stretch54 7 лет назад

    This is an entirely different band than Ellis had earlier. Crazy. Did he really just get rid of his whole band?

  • @charleswinokoor6023
    @charleswinokoor6023 2 года назад

    Intro vocal chant: see gamelan music from Bali.

  • @Capcoor
    @Capcoor 6 лет назад

    At 8:50 what is the woman playing?

    • @muziklvr7776
      @muziklvr7776 6 лет назад

      Probably the Timpani

    • @johndias6614
      @johndias6614 5 лет назад

      Looks like vibraphone or marimba. Looking again, I also think it may be timpani with a set of vibes in front hiding the timp.

  • @willyjazz1
    @willyjazz1 13 лет назад +1

    pedazo de bestia y bestias!!!

  • @dachanist
    @dachanist 4 года назад

    This is actually a young Steve Ballmer

  • @paulwilhoit9677
    @paulwilhoit9677 5 лет назад

    Where Chuck M. got his ideas.

  • @Geerpower
    @Geerpower 5 лет назад +1

    Heavy chin! :O

  • @billiswillis4087
    @billiswillis4087 4 года назад

    03 blue devils
    05 the cadets
    2013 Carolina 👑

    • @Peccos
      @Peccos 4 года назад

      What???

    • @MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer
      @MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer 2 года назад

      Actually, none of these corps played Open Wide. However, 1979 27th Lancers did.

    • @kesslerrb
      @kesslerrb Год назад

      Northrop High School Big Orange Pride 1988

  • @genegilbert2028
    @genegilbert2028 4 года назад

    Благо Труьба Джаз! Пожар!!

  • @kevinmason124
    @kevinmason124 4 года назад

    What's the deal with the orangey symbols on the musicians' shirts?

  • @alejandrohectorgarcia7451
    @alejandrohectorgarcia7451 8 лет назад

    Stan Kenton's son?

  • @SedonaMTB
    @SedonaMTB Год назад

    Modus Novus

  • @57too
    @57too 5 лет назад

    Reincarnation of Bix Beiberbek - maybe so!!!

  • @skwmusic5233
    @skwmusic5233 12 лет назад +5

    Ahh the 70s. Great music and a whole lot of stupid hair :)

    • @muziklvr7776
      @muziklvr7776 Год назад

      The stupid hair era was the 80's, by a long shot.

  • @cpu554
    @cpu554 10 лет назад +7

    too much 4/4!

    • @domitype
      @domitype 8 лет назад +2

      +cpu554 Can't be in non-standard time all the time!

    • @lennartcordesius8537
      @lennartcordesius8537 7 лет назад +4

      4/4 OR OR NONSTANDARD TIME SIGNATURE
      TO HELL WITH THAT AS LONG ITS
      MUSIC AND HAPPY ONE

    • @muziklvr7776
      @muziklvr7776 Год назад

      At least it's syncopated.