Don Ellis - Tears Of Joy '1971

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1:

1 Tears Of Joy	2:58
2 5/4 Getaway	7:49
3 Bulgarian Bulge	4:54
4 Get It Together	5:14
5 Quiet Longing	3:48
6 Blues In Elf	6:41
7 Loss	8:21

CD2:


1 Hows This For Openers?	8:37
2 Samba Bajada	11:31
3 Strawberry Soup	17:36
4 Euphoric Acid	4:25

personnel : 

Don Ellis – trumpet, flugelhorn, drums, arranger
Lonnie Shetter – Alto sax, woodwinds
Fred Selden – alto saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone, piccolo, alto
flute, arranger
Sam Falzone – tenor saxophone, clarinet, flute, arranger
Jon Clarke – bari sax, woodwinds
Paul Bogosian, Jack Caudill, Bruce Mackay – trumpet
Kenneth Nelson – French Horn
Jim Sawyers – trombone
Ken Sawhill – bass trombone
Doug Bixby – contrabass trombone, tuba
Milcho Leviev – piano, pianet, clavinet
Dennis Parker – bass
Ralph Humphrey, Ron Dunn – drums
Lee Pastora – congas
Earle Corry, Alfredo Ebat – violin
Ellen Smith – viola
Christine Ermacoff – cello

Recorded in 1971, Tears of Joy is a Don Ellis classic. The sheer musical
strength of this ensemble is pretty much unparalleled in his career. The
trumpeter/leader had backed off -- a bit -- from some of his outlandish and
beautifully excessive use of strange and unconventional time signatures, though
there is no lack of pioneering experimentalism in tone, color, arrangement, or
style. This double LP/CD features a string quartet, a brass octet (four
trumpets, tuba, bass trombone, trombone, and French horn), four winds, and a
rhythm section boasting two drummers, a percussionist, a bassist, and the
Bulgarian jazz piano wizard Milcho Leviev. This is a sprawling album. Disc one
is made up of short- to mid-length pieces, the most notable of which are the
intense adrenaline surge of 5/4 Getaway (with a killer string arrangement by
Hank Levy, one of three arrangers on this set) and the blazing Eastern European
klezmer meets Bulgarian wedding music meets hard bop blues of Bulgarian Bulge.
Levievs solo on the latter comes right out of the knotty, full-on bore of the
tunes melody (written by Ellis, who scored all but three selections), and cites
everyone from Wynton Kelly to Scott Joplin to Mal Waldron. Elsewhere, such as on
Quiet Longing, the strings are utilized as the base and texture of color. One
can hear Gil Evans influence here, and in the restrained tenderness of this
short work one can also hear Ellis profound lyricism in his flügelhorn solo.
The second discs first moment, Hows This for Openers?, is a knotty composition
that touches on bolero, Aaron Copland, and operatic overture. Levys Samba Bajada
is a swinging opus that uses tropes from early Deodato in his bossa years,
Sergio Mendes, and Jobim, and weaves them through with an elegant, punchy sense
of hard bop and the American theater. On the 17-plus minute Strawberry Soup
(with a vocal quartet in the background), Ellis gets to show what his band is
capable of in its different formations. Full of both subtle and garish colors,
timbral grace and vulgarity, elegant and roughly hewn textures, and a controlled
yet wildly divergent set of dynamics, this tune is one of the most adventurous
and most brilliantly composed, arranged, and executed works to come out of the
modern big band literature. It is virtually a big-band concerto. Ultimately,
Tears of Joy stands as a singular achievement in a career full of them by a
musical auteur whose creativity seemingly knew few if any bounds.

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