Don Ellis - Freedom Jazz Dance

[MegaBanne]

its funny that it nearly sounds the same as the original, i mean for being a big band its incredibly close to the eddie sound.

[Flextones]

Indeed I have read through several odd meter and compound melody compositions by Dave Brubeck. I found Don's music to be far more adventurous in his development of odd and compound meters in Jazz. The one criticism of Jazz I have is the art form has spent entirely too much time in duple and triple meter.

[gxtmfa]

@Flextones Well, that's more or less because Jazz approaches music from the perspective of the improviser, not the composer. Most jazz songs are solo vehicles, and complex meters are not always conducive to improvisation. The extra burden of trying to focus on meter is one soloists would rather not think about. Because jazz is a western music, performers choose the meters they're most comfortable with. In western music, that means a lot 4/4 and 3/4

[blackandtanful]

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[jcast18k]

I heard this like 7 + 8 - 3*15 + 2 - 6

[andydrummmer]

unbelievable good impressive! this musician was of biggest genius!

[pindaric]

This is a Don Ellis track that really shows how to swing in this time signature.

[brew1138]

This is soo goood. It's in 7, 2-2-3, with a Don Ellis sort of backbeat, the 2s get the heavy emphasis from about 3:45 to 4:30 of the song. Wild, but hey, It's Don...

[Champloo321]

3+4

[SteffanLlwyd]

Works great in 7. What a good idea....

[andrewt4042]

Solid!

[drgabrielsoileau]

Groovin'

[TheMhh]

Love this groove on the old chesnut...

Yeah, 1+2+1+2+123+123.

That gets it.

[Flextones]

Is this 3+4 or 4+3? What do you feel? I had to listen to it a couple of times but it sounds like 3+4 to me. I really like this. Over the years I have taught public school and at a college to undergrad music majors. As a classically trained jazz pianist sometime the argument of jazz rhythm comes up. I like to refer my colleages to Don Ellis as an example of a writer and performer who wrote swinging jazz in odd meters. Mr Compound/complex himself.

[lxnch]

mostly 2+2+3 for me, ignoring the syncopations :)

[pholzer5]

@lxnch I hear it as 2+2+3.  What a great rendition. Wow that Tom Scott solo rocks! - Peter

[pandrice93]

@lxnch i'd have to agree

[javieral01]

@lxnch exactly it is a 7/4 right on

[anonymusum]

I guess it´s 2+2+3

[igorgul]

it's a 2+2+3, but you have to count like this :

1+2+1+2+123123. Just listen to the hohrn section at 2:36, they give the groove.  Bass &drum are just twisting the time feel, as on eddy Harris'version... Just lovely!

[1337Hacke]

@Flextones or just 7/4?

[GnomeChomsky02]

@Flextones

Might not wanna forget about Brubeck...less avant garde but perhaps the quintessential example of odd-meter bebop...love me some Don Ellis though.

[Flextones]

Tom Scott really has a good reputation. I was in the Army School of Music in Norfolk, Va and I was the baddest piano player on the base so I went a Musician's Union rehearsal there at the SOM. They threw some Tom Scott arrangements on me and it blew my mind. I will never forget I was dumbfounded. I was hand-cuffed. i left that rehearsal a more humble cat. I would like to revisit those charts now. twenty years later. I think I could handle them now. This tune really swings in 7.

[donaldpeter28]

Dave Mackay and Tom Scott are superb in this hip 7 time Don Ellis version of Freedom Jazz Dance.

[mkatz76]

Absolutely brilliant!

[xxTimeandSpacexx]

What are all the instruments used?

[StradMan37]

I know the Herman band did a version, but THIS is just mind-blowing! And it swings like mad!!!

[Zombbg4]

What album is this on?? It's so sick!!!

[lastfirstface]

Its on Don Ellis Orchestra "Live in 'three and two thirds over four' time"