Live Performance April 3rd 2005
"Rhumba Cat" by Barry Sahagian
in Lake Placid, New York. He is music director of the Nonet for "Jazz Vermont"
a theme jazz camp.
David Ellis
Trumpet
Live Performance April 3rd 2005 "Rhumba Cat" by Barry Sahagian |
David Ellis is a graduate of the New England Conservatory
of Music. Having experience in many styles of music, he has played in
clubs, studios, and concerts throughout the country with a variety of
musical groups. He has had the opportunity to work with such jazz greats
as Jaki Byard, Phil Woods, Clark Terry, Sam Rivers, Toshiko Akiyoshi and
Lew Tabackin; has free-lanced in Boston and New York; played shows in
the Poconos and Catskill Mountains; and toured with the New York Renaissance
Band, the Band of America, and the Dartmouth Jazz Ensemble. David is currently the jazz trumpet soloist with the Vermont
Jazz Ensemble where he can be heard on his composition, "Miles' Adventure",
on their upcoming CD, 25 Years in the Moonlight. Other CDs on which he
can be heard are Stacey Starkweather's Option Anxiety, and Juliet McVicker's
Little Jazz Bird.David's main influences on trumpet have been Dizzy Gillespie,
Clifford Brown, Chet Baker and Miles Davis. His playing has been described
by the Vermont Vanguard as "…clean, innovative breaks that set
him apart… in power and style…" and as " cool, infusing
his solos with a lush almost tender lyricism.
In addition to performing, he is frequently called on
by music educators to conduct and adjudicate high school and college jazz
ensembles. Some of these ensembles include the Barbary Coast at Dartmouth
College, the Vermont All-State and District ensembles, and the Northeast
Instrumental Music Festival in Lake Placid, New York. He is music director of the Nonet for "Jazz Vermont" a theme jazz camp. |