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| Dave Ellis (2004) | |
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| Tenor saxophonist Dave Ellis has long been a key figure in the fertile Northern California jazz scene. His story is a tapestry woven from myriad musical adventures. It begins with his days as a ten-year-old musical prodigy and opens on a new chapter with State of Mind, his debut recording for Milestone, featuring a sterling jazz veteran cast of pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassists Peter Washington and Christian McBride, drummers Carl Allen and Lewis Nash, and alto saxophonist Vincent Herring.
Along the way, Ellis was named Best New Talent (along with Diana Krall) in the 1997 Jazziz magazine Readers Poll. He scooped up two 1999 California Music Awards--for Outstanding Jazz Album and Outstanding Jazz Artist in Northern California, and jazz critics hailed his mature saxophone style for its "enveloping sound and emphatic attack" (Bob Blumenthal, Atlantic Monthly) and its "alternately earthy, probing, and lyrical" sound (Mike Joyce, Washington Post). As legendary record producer Orrin Keepnews writes in his liner notes to the first new Ellis recording in five years, "even on the shifting and difficult terrain of early 21st century jazz, a talent as formidable as his should and will be recognized." |
| Pick | Artist | Album | Song | Label |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | John Coltrane | Coltrane's Sound | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | (Atlantic) |
| # 2 | Johnny Hodges, featuring John Coltrane | Great Moments in Jazz, Vol. 2, Alto Masters | In a Mellotone | (Swing Treasury) |
| # 3 | Weather Report | Weather Report (1982 | NYC Part I: 41st Parallel | (Columbia) |
| # 4 | Vince Guaraldi | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Skating | (Fantasy) |
| # 5 | Clifford Brown jr | Clifford Brown Memorial Album | Minor Mood | (Blue Note) |
| # 6 | Berkeley High School Jazz Ensemble, featuring Paul Hanson | At Monterey | We'll Be Together Again | Not commercially available |
| # 7 | Yusef Lateef | Eastern Sounds | Love Theme from "Spartacus" | (OJC) |
| # 8 | John Coltrane | Afro-Blue Impressions | Naima | (Pablo) |
| Book | A book of manuscript paper | |||
| Luxury Item | A piano | |||
| Alternate Picks/Not Broadcast | ||||
| Alt 1 | Bill Bell | Just Swing, Baby | N/A | (Jazz Professor Records) |
| Alt 2 | Art Blakey | Free for All | N/A | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 3 | John Coltrane | Blue Trane | N/A | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 4 | Miles Davis | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alt 5 | Duke Ellington | Piano Reflections | N/A | (Capitol) |
| Alt 6 | Bill Evans | Everybody Digs Bill Evans | N/A | (Riverside) |
| Alt 7 | Dexter Gordon | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alt 8 | Lionel Hampton | Just Jazz | Stardust | (MCA) |
| Alt 9 | Joe Henderson | Mode for Joe | N/A | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 10 | Freddie Hubbard | Eternal Triangle with Woody Shaw | N/A | (Capitol) |
| Alt 11 | Elvin Jones | Live at the Lighthouse, Vol.s 1 & 2 | N/A | (Blue Note) |
| Alt 12 | Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus | St Thomas | (OJC) |
| Alt 13 | Woody Shaw | Rosewood | N/A | (Columbia) |
| Alt 14 | Lester Young | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alt 15 | Larry Young | Unity | N/A | (Blue Note) |
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