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.
+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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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!
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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!
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
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.
Actually, 27th Lancers played this chart in their 1984 show...the last time they made finals. th-cam.com/video/eFtgAhIMaKQ/w-d-xo.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.
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.
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,
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...
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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 !!!
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!
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...
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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...
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
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.
+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.
+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.
Don was a beautiful guy who died way too young. But I guess we will have to be satisfied with watching videos like this.
I too, weep and laugh!
I know what you mean. People never last but thankfully pieces of their gold are always around.
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.
This guy might be one of the greatest underrated horn plays I have ever heard..
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.
Not only was Don a genius! His musicians were ALL at the top of their game! All genius!
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 ?
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!
I just can't get enough of this guy, I want to live in his head
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.
Began tearing up at the end. He's having so much fun. My favorite musician.
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.
Don was a beast. A Monster. An absolute monster. Damned shame he left this earth when he did.
That's Ralph Humphrey at 9.00 on drums I believe. The Don Ellis Orchestra is one of the very best big bands ever.
YES !
Jay Saunders on trumpet, portly and second ex the right ?
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.
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.
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
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!
Amazing! There doesn't seem to be much live footage of Ellis and his band, and I'm really surprised to find this!
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.
He was a great man. Humble. Down to earth. R.I.P. Ralph
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!
What more could one ask for? This band is TEARING IT UP.
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
I'd sell my soul for a pro remaster of this.
Holy Shit ! They are on fire!!!
There are two premature deaths that still hurt me like open wounds so many decades later ... John Lennon and Don Ellis.
Excelente video. John Klemmer aparece justo un año antes de volverse una estrella. Don Ellis es sin duda ; el músico excelso por excelencia.
I wish I had been there!
R.I.P. Ralph Humphreys
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....
Al Ziemer - You've never heard Miles Davis?
4:38--trombone solo by Glenn Ferris. 9:47--tenor saxophonist Frank Strozier.
The tenor players are John Klemmer and Sam Falzone. Strozier is on alto.
👍👍👍👍👍😁💯🔥
Jon Klemmer on tenor!!
ellis with ring modulator.
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.
Uffffff!!!! John klemmer before he got famous in a-solo carer..the trombone player awesome..don ellis a athete/ musician !!!
They done took it all the F out. dang
It has to be Glenn Ferris; it sounds too much like him to be anybody else.
Yes, it's Glenn.
Yeah, John, that's Glenn Ferris.
What type of drugs were they in? The trombonist is nuts! Cracking
Check out Henry Southall's trombone playing with Woody Herman in the '60s - just as idiosyncratic
I don't think these guys were on any drugs. Or drunk. You cannot be on anything to play the shit they were playing.
HaHa
he is so good he makes the video skip
Now I know where the Blue Devils get their inspiration from.
Actually, 27th Lancers played this chart in their 1984 show...the last time they made finals.
th-cam.com/video/eFtgAhIMaKQ/w-d-xo.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.
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.
Judy Collins? Was she in there somewhere? ;-)
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,
Leo Boyle the album was a 33, not a 78. Long past the 78 era.
Fix the tracking!
Who are the 5 idiots that voted this down!?!
This is not Indian lady, originally sang by Lou Christie
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...
Indian Lady is one of the greatest jazz compositions ever. Thanx for posting this performance. Originally on the Electric bath album.
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.
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.
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
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 :)
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 !!!
My Brother went to that concert in Visalia...I would say about 1970-71ish? Also took a cute girl...
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!
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...
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.
The guy was phenomenal
Oh my, we lost that man far too soon.
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 !!
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!
don' forget Clarke Boland band..!!
absolutely agree
I saw them several times in late 60s and early 70s. The Biggest Band and they were so freaking tight. Just Amazing.
THIS BURNS! A young Ralph Humphrey on drums
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.
1,2,3 one two, one two. Beautiful interlude. Played it in 73. Fun, fun, fun...
Man this is fire... 100% Gives me that Charlie Mingus feeling (who's my main man)
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
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.
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
There's a live version of this on the Autumn album. I wore that sucker out.
No comments yet on this masterpiece?
Shame on you youtubers!
Virtuoso all. Don!!! A privilege.
Waaaaay ahead of his time...er nine quarters time..I guess!
10/8 - quite conservative for Don!
Written in 5, but Milcho told me he always felt it in 10/8.@@morganfisherart
The trombone solo sounded like Charlie Brown's teacher going off!
I believe it´s Glenn Ferris.
Lotta Fender amps up there for a jazz band. ;)
AMAZING!!!
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)
DONALD - TRUMPET !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
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.
Hallelujah!
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...
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
Is that a varitone amplifier hooked to Ellis’ trumpet? That’s the amp that Eddie Harris used.
I always look for timeless tunes and appears like this one
Very first time I heard of Don Ellis was is song
A genius simply a genius!
Ty John Riley that got me here
this man is a god
great 10/8 pattern
Alle sind im Don Ellis shirt.
I saw Don rehearsing his band at a club called Bonesville in Hollywood in 1967. Amazing!
That was his club, Bill, and it was on Melrose, just west of LaBrea.