Don Ellis: Six Classic Albums 4-CD Deluxe Set by Real Gone Jazz

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• UPC: 5036408192325
• Product Type: Music CD (4-Disc Box Set)
• Brand Name: Real Gone Jazz
• MPN: RGJCD544
• Genre: Jazz
• Style: Third Stream, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Modal Jazz
• Artist: Don Ellis
• Release Year: 2012 (Original recordings 1960–1962)
• Country: United Kingdom

Product Features

• Format: 4 x CD, Deluxe Box Set, Digitally Remastered
• Collection Includes: Six full albums: How Time Passes, New Ideas, George Russell Sextet in K.C., Essence, The Stratus Seekers, and The Outer View.
• Enhanced Quality: Digitally enhanced for superior audio fidelity.
• Key Collaborators: Jaki Byard, Ron Carter, Charlie Persip, George Russell.

Overview

Don Ellis: Six Classic Albums is an essential 4-CD deluxe collection that chronicles the formative years of one of jazz’s most innovative trumpeters and composers. This set gathers his seminal works from 1960 to 1962, a period where Ellis was at the forefront of the "Third Stream" movement—the synthesis of classical music and jazz. Featuring the complete recordings of masterpieces like How Time Passes and New Ideas, as well as his vital collaborations with the legendary theorist George Russell, this collection showcases Ellis's pioneering use of odd time signatures and avant-garde structures. It is a must-have for collectors seeking the roots of modern orchestral and experimental jazz.

Interesting Facts

• Mathematical Mastery: Don Ellis was famous for his obsession with complex rhythms and unusual time signatures (such as $5/4$, $7/8$, or even $19/4$), which later became a hallmark of his big band work.
• The George Russell Connection: This set includes Ellis's work with George Russell, whose "Lydian Chromatic Concept" deeply influenced Ellis’s approach to modal improvisation.
• Third Stream Pioneer: The album How Time Passes is considered a cornerstone of Third Stream jazz, utilizing a "tempo-space" concept where the speed of the music is integrated into the harmonic structure.
• Technical Innovation: Ellis later became known for using a specially designed four-valve trumpet that allowed him to play quarter-tones, though these early albums capture his brilliance on the standard instrument.

Track Listing

DISC ONE

• How Time Passes (1960)

• How Time Passes – 6:26

• Sallie – 4:35
• A Simplex One – 4:13
• Waste – 8:09

• Improvisational Suite #1 – 22:17

• New Ideas (1961)

• Natural H – 4:34

• Despair to Hope – 4:20
• Uh-Huh – 8:16
• Four and Three – 5:05

DISC TWO

• New Ideas (Cont.)

• Imitation – 7:57

• Solo – 2:17
• Cock and Bull – 7:05

• Tragedy – 5:11

• George Russell Sextet in K.C. (1961)

• War Gewessen – 6:18

• Rhymes – 4:24
• Lunacy – 7:13
• Sandu – 10:59
• Tune Up – 8:00
• Theme – 3:06

DISC THREE

• Essence (1962)

• Johnny Come Lately – 4:53

• Slow Space – 4:33
• Ostinato – 7:32
• Donkey – 4:35
• Form – 10:09
• Angel Eyes – 4:21
• Irony – 5:10

• Lover – 3:21

• The Stratus Seekers (1962)

• Pan-Daddy – 4:57

• The Stratus Seekers – 6:52
• Kige's Tune – 5:47

DISC FOUR

• The Stratus Seekers (Cont.)

• Blues in Orbit – 7:23

• A Lonely Place – 7:20

• Stereophrenic – 5:14

• The Outer View (1962)

• Au Privave – 6:21

• Zig-Zag – 4:02
• The Outer View – 10:06
• You Are My Sunshine – 11:52
• D.C. Divertimento – 9:13

Publishers

• Label: Real Gone Jazz
• Series: Six Classic Albums / 88 Deluxe
• Copyright: © 2012 Real Gone Jazz

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