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  • Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
  • The Don Ellis Band performs "Indian Lady" at Tanglewood, 1968.

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  • @Emlizardo
    @Emlizardo 2 месяца назад +4

    What more could one ask for? This band is TEARING IT UP.

  • @bucksix1
    @bucksix1 9 лет назад +66

    I have a hard time listening to any Don Ellis without crying like a baby. His untimely death was a great loss to us all. Despite the tears, I can't get enough Don Ellis. Though deceased, he will always be a part of my life.

    • @dawnvalley2549
      @dawnvalley2549 8 лет назад +4

      +Jay Francis Just what you said. I grew up with this music. I weep and laugh and just love it all when I listen to him.

    • @bucksix1
      @bucksix1 8 лет назад +1

      +Dawn Valley I just now read your response to my comments. I just knew there had to be more like me relative to Don Ellis.
      Not too long ago I had a wonderful exchange of e-mails with Dave Crigger who was the drummer on the Montreux performances. Among other things I told him that from a distance of many miles and years I was in love with Ruth Richie from that orchestra. He wrote back and said that he had told her what I said and that she said it made her day. You better believe that her response made my day.
      Years ago I met Don through a mutual friend. He was of course gracious and charming.

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 7 лет назад +4

      Don was a beautiful guy who died way too young. But I guess we will have to be satisfied with watching videos like this.

    • @rizwanrana3818
      @rizwanrana3818 6 лет назад +2

      I too, weep and laugh!

    • @bobhickman4976
      @bobhickman4976 3 года назад +1

      I know what you mean. People never last but thankfully pieces of their gold are always around.

  • @absolutevideo1899
    @absolutevideo1899 3 года назад +9

    I was lucky enough to play this actual quarter tone trumpet when I visited Don's mother Sugar in 1989 it played like a dream possible the best Trumpet Holton ever made...

  • @mikekelsey6777
    @mikekelsey6777 Год назад +4

    It was back in the 60's that , I was fully involved with with Jazz through High School and Junior High. Went to Disney Land in Southern Cal with the family, and too my surprise, we find that Don Ellis is performing. He did not have his full band, but the performance was great. What a great unexpected experience.

  • @Hithere-ek4qt
    @Hithere-ek4qt 2 года назад +5

    Great band, I was fortunate enough to see him in Minneapolis many years ago. When he sent several of his band members into different parts of the auditorium, and they played kind of a call and response tune it was simply amazing.

  • @paulgentile1024
    @paulgentile1024 3 года назад +8

    This guy might be one of the greatest underrated horn plays I have ever heard..

  • @williamnancarrow2584
    @williamnancarrow2584 Год назад +2

    In 1980, I had just picked up the electric bass a couple of years earlier, and I went to high school and my HS jazz band director had an 8-track (yep!) of Ellis's Autumn album (with Indian Lady and a bunch of legendary tunes) and I was immediately hooked. I went from Led Zeppelin, the Who, etc., without missing a beat into big band jazz via Don Ellis. Then to Kenton, Basie, Ellington, Goodman, Herman, Henderson, etc. Then to Berklee and jazz composition studies. I still look back on Don Ellis as the gateway drug into jazz. Funny how life works.

  • @hierroglyphic
    @hierroglyphic 8 лет назад +16

    I just can't get enough of this guy, I want to live in his head

  • @brianparks9968
    @brianparks9968 4 года назад +12

    Not only was Don a genius! His musicians were ALL at the top of their game! All genius!

    • @raymondolsen2332
      @raymondolsen2332 2 года назад

      He rehearsed the band Monday nights in Los Angeles at a place called, "Donte's" at that time ... an off-day for union musicians and by some special dispensation. Can you imagine ?

  • @TheToocold
    @TheToocold 10 лет назад +24

    Definitely the first dude to "electrify" a horn, and a quarter tone trumpet no less! I've listening to this piece for near 50 years now and it is still totally sick! Don Ellis!

  • @jamesvaldez2379
    @jamesvaldez2379 3 года назад +4

    I got to open up in a band by the name of Salty Dog at a Grass Roots Concert with Don Ellis and Patty Austin singing, I was only 13 years old playing in a hot funk rock band. I was invited to then drummer Brent Brace's house to show him some of my style of funk rock street drumming. Don called me and invited me to rehearse with his band and do a show. At the time Ralph Humphrey's wasn't too impressed with a kid getting so much attention. Don also asked me to work out with him at his studio, he told me he just had to learn that Ghetto latin funk I was playing on the drums, I just said, that's how I play. I already had done many concerts with some of the best doing Wolfman Jack concerts backing up groups and had already played with Jr Walker at age 10, so I already was forming my own style of drumming, being that I played Rock, Latin, and with East LA horn bands much older than myself. I was shocked to hear of Don's passing. One great story about Don and myself, he recommended me to Santana's conga player Mingo Lewis for a gig. when I spoke to Mingo on the phone, I told him I didn't read and that I'm only thirteen, he said, hey, if Don recommended you and gave me your number, that's good enough for me. I flew to SF and got the gig, but had to come back home, my choice, I was too young to be left there alone.

  • @GaryColecchio
    @GaryColecchio 10 лет назад +7

    I too was at the Lincoln Center show. There were more people in the band than were in the audience. The band walked out and played in the audience. I've never seen or heard anything like that and probably never will again. It was magical.

  • @scottski51
    @scottski51 5 лет назад +4

    Swear to God, I got to see Ellis and his Band of Crazies at a junior college concert in Visalia, Ca. around this time. Took a cute girl for a first date. I loved the music!! She... wouldn't go out with me a second time !!!

    • @me4play
      @me4play 3 года назад +2

      My Brother went to that concert in Visalia...I would say about 1970-71ish? Also took a cute girl...

    • @robertvonbargen8677
      @robertvonbargen8677 3 года назад +1

      I just posted this on FB and assured everybody t hat it would piss off somebody in the family.... I swear t hat my ADHD was made to listen to this band!

  • @285209
    @285209 11 лет назад +7

    amazing...simply amazing...when I was a kid, other than Zappa and Dave Brubeck, this was the only guy I knew who did wild time signatures...never seen it live, thanks

  • @andyydna101
    @andyydna101 8 лет назад +6

    Began tearing up at the end. He's having so much fun. My favorite musician.

  • @skrooit
    @skrooit 11 лет назад +10

    I was at this show. When we were leaving, all wrung out at the power and beauty of what we'd just seen and heard, I said to my friend Marty "Don Ellis just took my soul, washed it clean and hung it out to dry." I am still just as shivered when I listen to this (Electric Bath) on cd, turned as way up as it needs to be. Don had no equal; tragedy he left us so soon...

  • @GaryHurd
    @GaryHurd 9 лет назад +12

    Don was a "homeboy" from Whittier California. He did a lot of free shows for benefits around town. A great talent, and a fine man.

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 7 лет назад

      Don was a beast. A Monster. An absolute monster. Damned shame he left this earth when he did.

  • @bobhickman4976
    @bobhickman4976 3 года назад +2

    I saw them several times in late 60s and early 70s. The Biggest Band and they were so freaking tight. Just Amazing.

  • @davesax11
    @davesax11 7 лет назад +14

    Indian Lady is one of the greatest jazz compositions ever. Thanx for posting this performance. Originally on the Electric bath album.

  • @stretch54
    @stretch54 8 лет назад +20

    That's Ralph Humphrey at 9.00 on drums I believe. The Don Ellis Orchestra is one of the very best big bands ever.

  • @aurorajazz9
    @aurorajazz9 11 лет назад +3

    Great to see live footage of this band! First heard them when I was in High school.......my mom, a painter, was a big fan.

  • @davidkelly2207
    @davidkelly2207 3 года назад +1

    Stunning musicians, stunning creativity! I was introduced to Ellis's music by my college roommate, and was ultimately blessed to see Ellis perform several times with the Orchestra in LA (at what was then called the Pilgrimage Theatre) and a wonderful evening in a trio setting at the Ashgrove. He died far too young.

    • @raymondolsen2332
      @raymondolsen2332 2 года назад +1

      Don was guest soloist in March 1971 at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, Calif. The gymnasium was SRO that evening ... priceless memories of a tremendous musician. He could do it all

  • @dbenjazz
    @dbenjazz 9 лет назад +7

    Don's band purchased the entire stock of those outfits. The ending of this song was so long that the union made Don write out a second contract for the session :)

  • @7777Scion
    @7777Scion 12 лет назад +6

    Absolutely excellent - Don recorded this number twice - Electric Bath and the Autumn album. There is nothing today in jazz like the big bands that Ellis led, or the Jones-Lewis big band, or Toshiko Akiyoshi-Tewbackin big bands. This era is past ... glad we have some record of it!

  • @sundevilification
    @sundevilification 9 лет назад +3

    1,2,3 one two, one two. Beautiful interlude. Played it in 73. Fun, fun, fun...

  • @jacko222333
    @jacko222333 Год назад +1

    Ralph Humphrey gave my brother and me a couple drum lessons on that same set of Rogers drums back in 1971. They were set up in his bedroom and I noticed his bed was moving, which I had never seen before. It was a waterbed. He had us reading from some odd time studies in 5/4 he was working on that would eventually become his book EVENS IN THE ODDS. We listened to some jazz on his radio, and he asked me if I recognized the drummer. I said Art Blakey, he said I was right. My brother and I had been listening toi Gretsch Drum Night At Birdland for a few years, almost every morning before school, so we knew. I was 16 years old. We talked about having seen Tony Williams a few weeks prior. He loved Tony and had taken a lesson from in New York. I always loved Ralph R.I.P.

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 5 месяцев назад

      He was a great man. Humble. Down to earth. R.I.P. Ralph

  • @comm56ful
    @comm56ful 5 лет назад +11

    One of the Most Talented Musicians to Ever Come along. EVEN by Today's Standards. He was WAY AHEAD of his time... With Beautiful Music !!

  • @mikelevitz1184
    @mikelevitz1184 3 года назад +1

    that trombonest was glenn ferris an old friend from meremblume orchestra. that was when we were in our prime music years just out of college and enjoying ourselves. one of the trumpeters was stu bloomberg a great musician. music was siple then 332221222.

  • @patrickoneill1993
    @patrickoneill1993 7 лет назад +7

    I cannot believe what I just watched. I yelled and screamed the whole way through--truly a cavalcade of Joy in music for me. To whatever spirit Don was possessed by in that performance, take me next!

  • @DanteVelveeta
    @DanteVelveeta 13 лет назад +5

    Oh my, we lost that man far too soon.

  • @BestFitSquareChannel
    @BestFitSquareChannel Месяц назад

    Virtuoso all. Don!!! A privilege.

  • @donl.peterson8896
    @donl.peterson8896 11 лет назад +5

    The trumpet player on the left is a friend of mine. (Jack Coan) He is 82 and still gigging. He told me last year that he doesn't have his double "A" but still can nail a high F#. He played with us during our Synthesis tour in 1974. Pretty impressive!

  • @terryburns4866
    @terryburns4866 9 лет назад +2

    I saw this show in ?1968 or 69? on PBS. They followed Judy Collins singing 'In my Life". I was overwhelmed. I was a high school tuba player. I immediately tried to find records. Don Ellis records were hard to find in Georgia in the late 60's. I am still a fan.

  • @garymillstein3677
    @garymillstein3677 5 лет назад +3

    THIS BURNS! A young Ralph Humphrey on drums

  • @jaredi6221
    @jaredi6221 Год назад

    I always look for timeless tunes and appears like this one

  • @gomro
    @gomro 13 лет назад +6

    Amazing! There doesn't seem to be much live footage of Ellis and his band, and I'm really surprised to find this!

  • @AllThingsFoolish
    @AllThingsFoolish 3 года назад

    I attended that concert. I just finished my 1st year in music school at UMASS Amherst. This was the first 'Contemporary Trends' themed concerts ever to be offered at Tanglewood. The opening act was Judy Collins...Then Modern Jazz Quartet....The Ellis Band closed the show and blew the roof off...The entire audience was on its feet the moment the band started playing.....One of the three greatest concerts/bands I have ever heard... (I am pretty sure 'Indian Lady' opened the Ellis band's set)

  • @nadir6661
    @nadir6661 8 лет назад +3

    AMAZING!!!

  • @outerdarkness
    @outerdarkness 3 года назад

    So cool - I remember my Dad listening to Don Ellis at the Fillmore... as a kid it blew my mind that a big band could sound so contemporary and new. This music is still sounds current... I love how Don Ellis created an environment where his musicians were encouraged to step out and stretch their solos into new territory. So glad this stuff is on youtube.

  • @toothbrush5190
    @toothbrush5190 12 лет назад +2

    Wow, I can't believe there is footage of this band/show/tour. Incredible. I saw this show in Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall right around the time this was filmed. I was 11.
    Thanks for posting. I'm astonished!!
    Ellis was like no other

  • @froomist
    @froomist 8 лет назад +3

    I'd sell my soul for a pro remaster of this.

  • @aboutdafunk
    @aboutdafunk 11 лет назад +2

    Holy Shit ! They are on fire!!!

  • @suta007
    @suta007 Год назад

    Just heard the music of Don Ellis for the first time this morning. Man! I dont usually like 'big band' type sound, and trumpet is one of my least favourite instruments but the dynamism and sophistication is just brilliant - and still sounds fresh today. He seems like a truly gifted and visionary musician

  • @rodenderon1
    @rodenderon1 3 года назад

    Saw his band in '72 at Fort Wayne Elmhurst HS Jazz Festival. He played mostly drums. Some of us trumpets at Ben Davis heard where his hotel room was, and sneaked up there. We knocked on the door, and there he was, beard and all. We heard lots of partying going on, and a strange green cloud escaped through the half open door. We asked for an autograph, and all I can remember was his big old laugh. Obviously bad timing on our part. Great man. Great band. RIP Don

  • @hastyberford
    @hastyberford 7 лет назад +1

    There's a live version of this on the Autumn album. I wore that sucker out.

  • @sweetpapajazz
    @sweetpapajazz 9 лет назад +5

    So, i could play this shit to if I lived in a world were everybody walked up side down and things just floated around me and there were blue unicorns. Yeah this guy would be there to with his band.

  • @austrianfunkhunter
    @austrianfunkhunter 11 лет назад +1

    Hallelujah!

  • @lebomabe6465
    @lebomabe6465 3 года назад +1

    Man this is fire... 100% Gives me that Charlie Mingus feeling (who's my main man)

  • @jeantourangeau4635
    @jeantourangeau4635 2 года назад

    A genius simply a genius!

  • @rmbjr60
    @rmbjr60 4 года назад

    There are two premature deaths that still hurt me like open wounds so many decades later ... John Lennon and Don Ellis.

  • @andyhoov
    @andyhoov 13 лет назад +2

    No comments yet on this masterpiece?
    Shame on you youtubers!

  • @somedude8403
    @somedude8403 5 лет назад

    Very first time I heard of Don Ellis was is song

  • @billnelson9131
    @billnelson9131 6 лет назад

    I saw Don rehearsing his band at a club called Bonesville in Hollywood in 1967. Amazing!

    • @hookalakah
      @hookalakah 5 лет назад

      That was his club, Bill, and it was on Melrose, just west of LaBrea.

  • @jazzjanne1
    @jazzjanne1 12 лет назад

    I wish I had been there!

  • @ramsesfaradis7159
    @ramsesfaradis7159 10 лет назад

    Excelente video. John Klemmer aparece justo un año antes de volverse una estrella. Don Ellis es sin duda ; el músico excelso por excelencia.

  • @alziemer4728
    @alziemer4728 11 лет назад +1

    Why didn't the audience go NUTS and give Ellis a standing ovation at 3:20?
    That was the most incredible trumpet solo...EVER...in HISTORY....

    • @declamatory
      @declamatory 6 лет назад

      Al Ziemer - You've never heard Miles Davis?

  • @sj97inr4
    @sj97inr4 6 лет назад

    this man is a god

  • @hookalakah
    @hookalakah 5 лет назад +1

    4:38--trombone solo by Glenn Ferris. 9:47--tenor saxophonist Frank Strozier.

    • @pwstomper223
      @pwstomper223 4 года назад +1

      The tenor players are John Klemmer and Sam Falzone. Strozier is on alto.

  • @Memo2Self
    @Memo2Self 3 года назад

    I remember when the "odd" time signatures that Don and Brubeck specialized in had to be explained in great detail in the liner notes so we novices could keep up. Now even Taylor Swift is writing in 5/4. And I credit this band as part of that acceptance.

  • @user-ek4ki5gt6v
    @user-ek4ki5gt6v 18 дней назад

    👍👍👍👍👍😁💯🔥

  • @ultramannick
    @ultramannick 11 лет назад +5

    Jon Klemmer on tenor!!

  • @willmunroe
    @willmunroe 13 лет назад

    great 10/8 pattern

  • @YAMISOOLD2009
    @YAMISOOLD2009 4 года назад

    Phenomenal. I get a little peeved on any youtube video of Doc Severinson where they make him out to be the best trumpeter of all time. Maybe Doc is the fittest trumpet player of all time but what of cats like Don Ellis and Bill Chase and Clifford Brown? Unfortunately all these men died pretty early. I think some people (mostly music teachers) get hung up on precision and forget artistry. The public loves artistry. Don Ellis had this in spades.

  • @rayjr62
    @rayjr62 5 месяцев назад

    R.I.P. Ralph Humphreys

  • @wernertrptube
    @wernertrptube 13 лет назад +3

    ellis with ring modulator.

  • @pavlossoultoukis4448
    @pavlossoultoukis4448 6 лет назад

    Ty John Riley that got me here

  • @thebreathalyzer
    @thebreathalyzer 6 лет назад

    They done took it all the F out. dang

  • @luisfraire5319
    @luisfraire5319 4 года назад +1

    Uffffff!!!! John klemmer before he got famous in a-solo carer..the trombone player awesome..don ellis a athete/ musician !!!

  • @elmondo033057
    @elmondo033057 13 лет назад +3

    Waaaaay ahead of his time...er nine quarters time..I guess!

    • @morganfisherart
      @morganfisherart 6 лет назад

      10/8 - quite conservative for Don!

    • @nickdiscala9638
      @nickdiscala9638 6 месяцев назад

      Written in 5, but Milcho told me he always felt it in 10/8.@@morganfisherart

  • @johnwinder6895
    @johnwinder6895 11 лет назад +6

    It has to be Glenn Ferris; it sounds too much like him to be anybody else.

    • @pwstomper223
      @pwstomper223 8 лет назад +1

      Yes, it's Glenn.

    • @hookalakah
      @hookalakah 5 лет назад +1

      Yeah, John, that's Glenn Ferris.

  • @jackosallotment6224
    @jackosallotment6224 8 лет назад +7

    What type of drugs were they in? The trombonist is nuts! Cracking

    • @Henderbeast
      @Henderbeast 8 лет назад +1

      Check out Henry Southall's trombone playing with Woody Herman in the '60s - just as idiosyncratic

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 7 лет назад +7

      I don't think these guys were on any drugs. Or drunk. You cannot be on anything to play the shit they were playing.

    • @davidbrogan432
      @davidbrogan432 7 лет назад

      HaHa

    • @sj97inr4
      @sj97inr4 6 лет назад

      he is so good he makes the video skip

  • @PabloVestory
    @PabloVestory 6 месяцев назад

    Amazing!!
    Pardon me the joke, but I can't help to remember many punk, grundge,... bands from 80's 90's onwards, and in the other hand some later upthight snobbish big bands, could learn here a few things about what a real "punk" very big band can do

  • @Zsnakeistaken
    @Zsnakeistaken 7 лет назад +2

    Now I know where the Blue Devils get their inspiration from.

    • @samsignorelli
      @samsignorelli 5 лет назад

      Actually, 27th Lancers played this chart in their 1984 show...the last time they made finals.
      ruclips.net/video/eFtgAhIMaKQ/видео.html starting at 5:20
      BD didn't do any Ellis until the 1993 show. 27th and Madison played Ellis charts before then...Niner-Two, Strawberry Soup among them.

  • @dipsyfriday
    @dipsyfriday 4 года назад +1

    The trombone solo sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher going off!

  • @MrDavidfarris
    @MrDavidfarris 3 года назад

    I haven’t heard really chunky shit like this since Coltrane! Shame these dudes don’t have any chops huh? WOW! I listened to some Ellis in college, don’t really know why I stopped. He was worth at least another hour or two anyway right? How can I say I studied jazz trumpet and not heard everything he did. Makes me wonder what he might have shared with us the ensuing years following his untimely death. Same for Bill Chase.

  • @jeffkeith5159
    @jeffkeith5159 4 года назад

    Does anyone know if that is Art Pepper on alto sax? At about 12:35 one can see the sax section standing and the posture of the altoist looks like Art Pepper... In Pepper's "Straight Life" memoir he says he was a member of the Don Ellis band for a time... Just wondering... Klemmer & Falzone are wild! Love their far out stuff! Sam Falzone was a super-nice guy, too! Klemmer, the few times I saw him, came across as a bit odd... Think there may have been some issues there... Still, both incredible tenor men...

  • @liamwatson5125
    @liamwatson5125 4 года назад

    Is that a varitone amplifier hooked to Ellis’ trumpet? That’s the amp that Eddie Harris used.

  • @benmen8699
    @benmen8699 10 месяцев назад

    DONALD - TRUMPET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @Leo25277
    @Leo25277 12 лет назад

    Back in the day, WHYY TV, Philadelphia, Pa had a lot of Jazz programming, and this is where I heard Don for the first. I immediately bought the album(78rpm). I think the closest anyone comes to this music are the Cohens,

    • @518gomber
      @518gomber 7 лет назад

      Leo Boyle the album was a 33, not a 78. Long past the 78 era.

  • @wernertrptube
    @wernertrptube 8 лет назад

    Alle sind im Don Ellis shirt.

  • @WilliamTurnerMusic
    @WilliamTurnerMusic 10 лет назад

    Judy Collins? Was she in there somewhere? ;-)

  • @declamatory
    @declamatory 6 лет назад

    Fix the tracking!

  • @jimhanak1733
    @jimhanak1733 5 лет назад

    Who are the 5 idiots that voted this down!?!

  • @jasonmark55
    @jasonmark55 11 лет назад

    This is not Indian lady, originally sang by Lou Christie