Artist..... Don Ellis
Title...... How Time Passes
Label...... Candid
Date....... 19 Nov 2008
Genre...... Jazz
Subgenre... Avant-Garde
Source..... WEB
Quality.... ~202 kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
Url........ www.emusic.com
Size....... 65.5MB
. .......................... Track List .......................... .
01 - How Time Passes 06:30
02 - Sallie 04:38
03 - A Simplex One 04:17
04 - Waste 08:15
05 - Improvisational Suite #1 22:19
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45:59
. ............................ Notes ............................. .
In 1960, Ellis displayed his growing creativity and innovative
experimentation on his first solo album, How Time Passes. Featured on
the recording was Ellis's roommate and friend from Boston, Jaki Byard,
a noteworthy modern jazz musician who was closely-associated with Ellis
from 1959-62.
How Time Passes feature devices that marked Ellis as an emerging jazz
modernist. He experimented with the use of a tone row as the basis of
jazz composition in "Improvisational Suite #1." According to Gunther
Schuller's liner notes on this piece:
"The SUITE uses twelve-tone rows only as a point of departure. It does
not develop the row material along orthodox methods. Formally, the SUITE
consists of a series of loosely strung together sections, alternating
between free cadenzas and strict time improvisations. Don's own statement
of intent: 'to create an extended piece which would be almost totally
improvised, which would sound new and fresh each time, and which would
present a variety of moods and levels of density and intensity, but which
would be highly unified structurally."
The first Ellis recordings reflect an early and somewhat primitive
fascination with tempo and rhythm, such as expanding and reducing the
musical timeline. This effect was achieved through accelerandos and
ritardandos in the title track of How Time Passes.
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