Lisle Ellis
Lisle Ellis ( born November 17, 1951 in Campbell River, British Columbia, partly LS Ellis ) is a Canadian jazz bassist, composer and live electronics.
Life and work
Lisle Ellis started the game on the bass guitar as a teenager and had his first gigs in studios, radio and television shows and strip clubs. Then studied at the Conservatory in Vancouver at Walter Robertson, then at the city's Douglas College. From 1975 to 1979 he studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock. Ellis lived first 1982/83 in Toronto, from 1983 to 1992 in Montreal, where he was active in various organizations, among other musicians. Then he moved to the United States, lived until 2001 in San Francisco until 2005 in San Diego, then in New York City.
In Vancouver, he worked with Paul Plimleys New Orchestra Workshop, with whom he still collaborates on various projects. With Plimley 1989 he released the album " Kaleidoscopes: The Ornette Coleman Songbook" on Hat Art label, which is rated five stars in Downbeat.
The Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia According to the mid-1990s led the relocation to California to the fact that he played from 1995 reinforced free jazz. Central here was the Trio What We Live, next to him Larry Ochs and Donald Robinson, grossed well as CDs with guests such as Wadada Leo Smith, Glenn Spearman and Dave Douglas. During concerts on the U.S. West Coast, he was the bassist of Cecil Taylor. In 1998 he presented a first album under his own name, Children in Peril ( with Joe McPhee ). He also played with musicians like Peter Brötzmann or Andrew Cyrille.
As a bassist, he was increasingly on the power play and moved on to work with different timbres. In addition, playing in Ellis ' music playing elements of electronic music a role. In this area, he worked with his experimental trio Audible Means ( with saxophonist Ellery Eskelin and keyboardist Erik German ), which was active in the New York scene in 2006/ 07. Since his arrival in New York he also worked with composer and keyboard player Tom Hamilton along in the field of electronic music. In 2007 he wrote the Sucker Punch Requiem - A Homage to Jean -Michel Basquiat, the twenty years before the late New York graffiti artists. In addition, Ellis played with the Italian-based formation Di Terra with pianist Alberto Braida and drummer Fabrizio Spera.