Artist: Don Ellis
Title: Three Classic Albums Plus (How Time Passes / New Ideas / Essence) (Digitally Remastered)
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: AVID Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC
Total Time: 2:36:25
Total Size: 800 MB


Tracklist:

1. How Time Passes (How Time Passes) (06:28)
2. Sallie (How Time Passes) (04:38)
3. A Simplex One (How Time Passes) (04:15)
4. Waste (How Time Passes) (08:12)
5. Improvisational Suite #1 (How Time Passes) (22:20)
6. Natural H (New Ideas) (04:36)
7. Despair to Hope (New Ideas) (04:22)
8. Uh-Huh (New Ideas) (08:18)
9. Four and Three (New Ideas) (05:08)
10. Imitation (New Ideas) (08:00)
11. Solo (New Ideas) (02:18)
12. Cock and Bull (New Ideas) (07:09)
13. Tragedy (New Ideas) (05:14)
14. Johnny Come Lately (Essence) (04:55)
15. Slow Space (Essence) (04:35)
16. Ostinato (Essence) (07:33)
17. Donkey (Essence) (04:39)
18. Form (Essence) (10:15)
19. Angel Eyes (Essence) (04:23)
20. Irony (Essence) (05:12)
21. Lover (Essence) (03:24)
22. Slop from Charles Mingus: Dynasty (04:46)
23. Things Ain't What They Used to Be from Charles Mingus: Dynasty (04:25)
24. Mood Indigo from Charles Mingus: Dynasty (08:16)
25. Put Me in That Dungeon from Charles Mingus: Dynasty (02:52)

Three early albums from vastly under-rated trumpeter, composer and bandleader Don Ellis showing the direction he was to follow over the next fifteen years or so before his tragically early death at age, just 44! If you check out the names of the guys Don was playing with in the early sixties it will give you a clue as to where his music was heading. In New York, Don had met fellow jazz searchers like Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy and George Russell. On our three selections you will hear him playing with a new breed of upcoming jazz men like Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Charlie Persip, Al Francis, Paul Bley and Gary Peacock. And of course on “Dynasty” he can be heard alongside Mingus himself as well as Booker Ervin and the mighty John Handy”. Following a relatively quiet period, album wise after his first three releases, Don went on to a prolific and highly experimental and influential musical career which came to a sudden tragic end in 1978 following a heart attack.