DON ELLIS - HAIKU












Don Ellis for MPS from 1974.
* Don Ellis - Trumpet* Israel Baker - Violin* Erno Neufeld - Violin* Jacob Krachmalnick - Violin* George Vinci - Violin* Shirley Cornell - Violin* Marcia Van Dyck - Violin* Marvin Limonick*Violin* Allan Harshman - Viola* David Schwartz - Viola* Myra Kestenbaum - Viola* Samuel Voghossian - Viola* Alfred Barr - Viola* Dan Neufeld - Viola* Raphael Kramer - Cello* Frederick Seykora - Cello* Ronald Cooper - Cello* Catherine Gotthoffer - Harp* Larry Carlton - Guitar
* David Cohen - Guitar* Tommy Tedesco - Guitar* Milcho Leviev - Keyboards* Ray Brown - Bass* John Guerin - Drums

Haiku (1974) represents another radical departure from both the conventions and the direction Ellis had been setting for himself and his ensemble. This recording features pristine chamber music-like settings of Ellis's favorite examples of ancient Japanese Haiku poetry, and foreshadows the "New Age" textures that became popular during the 1980s. Ellis provides the verbal narration of each for the ten settings himself. Ellis's stylistic development is best demonstrated on this release in the selection "Children," which features a sublime counterpoint writing in a 7/8 canonic passage.
Ripped@320 from the original vinyl-no reissues.

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