Liberty Ellman

Liberty Ellman (born 1971 in London, United Kingdom ) is an American jazz guitarist.

Life and work

Ellman spent his childhood until the age of eleven in New York, he lived in San Francisco, where he attended high school. He studied music at California State University at Sonoma and worked with Brad Hargreaves, later the drummer of his band as well as musicians such as D' Armous Boone, Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa. In addition, he has performed with the hip-hop group The Coup and Midnight Voices, the rhythm-and - blues group Anibade and koto player Miya Masaoka and wrote for the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a political theater group.

In 1997, Ellman label Red Giant Records, which released his debut album appeared Orthodoxy. In 1998 he returned to New York, where he ( with Stephan Crump and Derrek Phillips) also worked with his own trio and as a sideman Greg Osby, Henry Threadgill, Steven Bernstein, Butch Morris and Josh Roseman ( Treats for the Nightwalker, 2003). He also became a member of Threadgills band zooid.

Disco Graphical Notes

• Orthodoxy ( Noir, 1997) with Eric Crystal, Vijay Iyer, DJ Pause, K. Ellington Mingus, Hillel Familant, Rahsaan Fredericks, Babou Sagna, EW Wainwright, Brad Hargreaves
• Tactiles (Pi Records, 2002) with Mark Shim, Greg Osby, Stephan Crump, Eric Harland
• Ophiuchus Butterfly ( 2006) with Steve Lehman, Mark Shim. Jose Davila, Stephan Crump, Gerald Cleaver