ELLERY ESKELIN
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, 21st Century Modern, Hard Bop, Eclectic Fusion • United States

For Dirigo Rataplan project search under "Dirigo Rataplan". For that past thirty years Ellery Eskelin has been at the forefront of the global creative improvised music scene.  Based in New York City, he has traveled widely performing, recording and amassing a very personal and iconoclastic body of work.  And yet Ellery Eskelin has always remained deeply committed to the traditions of jazz and American music.  Eskelin embodies this seeming contradiction with ease.  He does not see jazz as a style or idiom but as a process.  Further, a process of creative development that has great relevancy to our time.  In this pursuit Eskelin consistently delivers to the listening public unadulterated, passionate music with no excuses and no apologies. Ellery Eskelin (born 1959) was raised in Baltimore and began playing the tenor saxophone at age ten, inspired by his mother "Bobbie Lee" who played read more...