At various times in my groups:
Andrea Parkins, (accordion, keyboards, sampler) Jim Black (drums & percussion), Marc Ribot (guitar), Melvin Gibbs (electric bass), Jessica Constable (voice), Philippe Gelda (voice and keyboards), Mat Maneri (viola), Erik Friedlander (cello), Mark Dresser (bass), Matt Moran (vibraphone), Joe Daley (tuba), Han Bennink (drums), Kenny Wolleson (drums), Arto Tuncboyaciyan (percussion), Drew Gress (bass), Phil Haynes (drums), Paul Smoker (trumpet).
At various times with other groups:
Organist Brother Jack McDuff, the Mikel Rouse Broken Consort, Joey Baron's "Baron Down", guitarist Eugene Chadbourne, oud player and composer Rabih Abou-Khalil, drummer Daniel Humair, bassist Mark Helias, drummer Gerry Hemingway, and the pseudo-group "The Grassy Knoll" among many others.
Recent projects include a new group led by cellist Vincent Courtois with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier (look for the new CD "As Soon as Possible" to be released September '08), "Different But the Same" a band co-led by fellow saxophonist David Liebman and myself (with a new CD out called "Renewal") and a new band led by drummer Bobby Previte called "The New Bump" (the new CD is called "Set the Alarm for Monday").
Sounds Like
Trailer for the band's DVD
"One Great Day..." Eskelin w/Parkins & Black - Barcelona, 2001
"Mediation" Eskelin w/Parkins & Black - Barcelona, 2001
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I began playing saxophone in 1969 at age 10, inspired by my mother Bobbie Lee, who played Hammond B3 organ with her own groups in Baltimore during the early 1960's. My father is the late Rodd Keith, cult hero to music collectors around the world for his work as a composer, keyboardist and vocalist in the little known field of song-poem music.
I live in Manhattan (since 1983) and tour internationally with my own ensembles and as a member of a variety of other groups, focusing on improvisational music. Most of my recordings are on the Swiss hatOLOGY label although I've recently been releasing new music on my own "prime source" label. Please visit the prime source web site for complete information on all the releases.
ONE GREAT NIGHT...LIVE
ONE GREAT NIGHT...LIVE
ONE GREAT NIGHT...LIVE
New release...available now...
Ellery Eskelin / tenor saxophone & composer
Andrea Parkins / accordion, piano, organ, sampler
Jim Black / drums & percussion
Q U I E T M U S I C
Q U I E T M U S I C
Q U I E T M U S I C
Ellery Eskelin / tenor saxophone & composer
Jessica Constable / voice
Andrea Parkins / accordion, piano, organ, sampler
Philippe Gelda / piano, organ, voice
Jim Black / drums & percussion
For complete information about this new release please visit the QUIET MUSIC website
Order a copy of "Quiet Music" now using pay pal for shipment anywhere in the world. Price for the double CD is $20 (only $10 per disc!) shipping will be added automatically...you'll see it on your ordering screen
"...another in an increasingly amazing discography for the tenor saxophonist." Pitchfork Media
"...shows no sign of settling into a predictable groove." Time Out New York
"...a stunning achievement." Santa Fe New Mexican
"Eskelin demonstrates his distinctive melange of flavors and intensities throughout,
and the band exudes intelligence without borders...Besides being an impressive and expansive statement of what this unusual band is all about, Quiet Music also marks the throwing of Eskelin's hat into the expanding ring of artist-run labels, in this case his new company prime source." JazzTimes Magazine
NEW ON PRIME SOURCE RECORINGS
NEW ON PRIME SOURCE RECORINGS
NEW ON PRIME SOURCE RECORINGS
Ellery Eskelin & Sylvie Courvoisier / Every So Often
duo improvisations for saxophone and piano
recorded in New York in September 2008 and available now
via worldwide mail-order from my web site using Pay Pal
Thanks for the friendship. Brotzmann 2009 USA Tour begins this week. Seattle, Houston, Austin, Grinnell, Chicago, Milwaukee, Lexington, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, New Haven, Baltimore, NYC
Hello Ellery,thanks for the add. It's a great honour for my, to share with you east space. Congratulations for your music and the way you play it!!! Greetings from Spain.
Thanks so much for the add, the kind an reflective message–and your friendship. We enjoyed your music very much. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. It's a pleasure having you among our friends!
We hope you and your friends enjoy our music, too. We've just added four new compositions and two new blogs about Umano.
We wake up every morning and play the music of the new MySpace friends who have arrived at our site during the night. It occurred to us that these friends (you are among them) are almost universally positive, whether they be novices or legends, and without regard to their station in life or the country they occupy.
It also occurred to us that we couldn’t hold a verbal conversation with most of these friends, but we have bridged that gap by expressing our art honestly with each other.
We all have been filling the world with our music and art, in the hope that our messages of love and human understanding will have an impact on the world at large.
What a gift and what an opportunity we have received from this technology!
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