Ellery Eskelin

Ellery Eskelin ( born August 16, 1959 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American tenor saxophonist, composer and band leader of the free and creative jazz and new music improvisation.

Work

Ellery Eskelin grew up in a musical family in Baltimore, Maryland. He lives in New York since 1983 and has been there in the 1990s, a major figure in the experimental jazz scene. With various ensembles he has performed in Europe, Canada and the United States; since the late 1980s, he has recorded as a bandleader, a number of albums, including the Swiss Hatology label. His most important works were produced since 1994 with keyboardist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black (about the album One Geat Day 1996 ). Also, were involved in his albums Joe Daley, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Matt Moran, Mat Manieri, Erik Friedlander and Mark Dresser. Eskelin worked with musicians like Joey Baron, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Marc Ribot, David Liebman, Han Bennink, Sylvie Courvoisier, Gebhard Ullmann, Rabih Abou- Khalil, Terrence McManus and Daniel Humair. With Paul Smoker, he founded in the 1980s, the formation of joint venture.

Eskelins style has its roots in jazz; in his works combine written-out and improvised elements that elude description by the " Downbeat " all categorization. Eskelin has received numerous critics awards and is regarded in the international jazz press as " a major player in contemporary creative music " (Down Beat, September 1995).

Discography

Filmography

• On the Road with Andrea Parkins & Jim Black (DVD, 2004)
• Off the Charts - The Song Poem Story ( PBS TV in 2003, Shout Factory DVD)