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Donald Johnson Elliswas an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures.
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Donald Johnson Elliswas an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971’s The French Connection and 1973’s The Seven-Ups.
6 Quotes by Don Ellis
- 1.
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)
- 2.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel – not the way others think you should feel.
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)
- 3.
If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)
- 4.
I got bored with the old way – it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said ‘What else is there?’ Now I’m finding out.
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)
- 5.
On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)
- 6.
Because when we are right there is not a band in the world that can touch us!
Don EllisAmerican jazz musician (1934-1978)