Don Ellis Quintet: New Ideas

Date:	Thursday, May 11, 1961
Label/Number:	Prestige New Jazz 8257
Personnel:	Don Ellis (tp, p) Al Francis (vb) Jaki Byard (p, as) Ron Carter (b) Charlie Persip (d)
Tracks:	Despair To Hope / Solo / Cock And Bull / Imitation / Tragedy / Uh-Huh / Prelude And Fugue / Natural H / Four And Three
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Liner Notes:	Don Ellis
Research Comments:	About the improvised duet, “Despair to Hope,” Ellis writes in the liner notes, “When we came into the studio, this was the first thing recorded. Other than the emotional framework and the instruments and means at our disposal, nothing was planned. We did one take. Rudy Van Gelder is to be congratulated on his sensitive engineering of a difficult problem. He had no idea what to expect and was told only that we would do this in one take.”
Status Notes:
Sources:	CDJ CDN AJ-IJS Ron Carter PR1