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Sunday, December 3, 2023

Tears Of Joy - Don Ellis

 

Strawberry Soup

Tears Of Joy
Don Ellis
Produced by Don Ellis
Arrangements by Don Ellis, Sam Falzone, Hank Levy, Fred Selden
Engineering: Roy Segal
Cover Art: Maria Eckstein
Back Cover Photos: Fred Selden, Earle Carry
Strings and piano amplified and recorded by direct line-feed with Barcus-Berry Transducer Systems
Quarter-tone trumpet and four-valve fluegelhorn by Halton
Ring Modulator by Oberheim Electronics.
Planet and clarinet by Hohner
Musical sound system by Altec Lansing
Fender-Rhodes piano and amplifiers by Fender
Columbia Records G 30927
1971

Don Ellis - Quarter-Tone Trumpet, Four-Valve Fluegelhorn, Drums
Lee Pastore - Conga
Ralph Humphrey, Don Dunn - Drums
Milcho Leviev - Piano
Christine Ermacoff - Cello
Kenny Sawhill - Bass Trombone
Jim Sawyer -  Trombone
Earle Corry - Violin
Fred Selden - Alto Sax
Lonnie Shetter, Paul Bogosian - Trumpet
Sam Falzone - Tenor Sax
Doug Bixby - Tuba
Jon Clarke - Baritone
Ellen Smith - Viola
Alfredo Ebat - Violin
Jack Caudill - Trumpet
Dennis Parker - Bass
Lonnie Parker - Bass
Lonnie Shetter - Alto Sax
Kenneth Nelson - French Horn
Bruce MacKay - Trumpet

From the back cover: Don Elliot Is An Adventure

Ellis is the only jazz big band leader to both emerge and endure in the last twenty years.

"The newest version (of his band) played Basin Street West last weekend, recorded an album for Columbia and demonstrated once again that it is the most exciting big band performing today. The main goodies this time were a brand new string section – cello, viola, two violins, all electrified – and a cappella, free-improvising wind quartet and Ellis himself on drums (and a new four-valve flugelhorn). In addition to the able mentioned, the band carries electric piano and bass, eight brass (including an extremely rare contrabass trombone) and three drummers." – John L. Wasserman, San Francisco Chronicle 

Tears Of Joy
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Quiet Longing
Blues In Elf
Loss
How's This For Openers?
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Strawberry Soup
Euphoric Acid

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