E L L E R Y E S K E L I N
tenorsaxophonistandcomposer






Press Quotes...







"...Eskelin continues to be the most inventive American tenor player in creative music..."
(Down Beat Nov. 1996)

"Together, the three have taken jazz to previously unexplored areas; their string of hatOLOGY releases is without question one of the signal oevres of '90s improv."
(Time Out New York, May 2004)

"In ten years he has built a catalogue of works of amazing quality which will probably soon be regarded as the most significant and original contribution to the jazz of the 1990s."
(Coda Magazine, January 2001)

"An imaginative, daring improvisor...The tenor saxophonist favors long sinuous phrases with enough twists and turns to keep his solos in a state of surprise, and his edgy tone lets you know it's all animated by a cagey authority"
(Village Voice, March 1999)

"He's managed to find his own unique space in the avant-jazz sphere..."
TIME OUT NEW YORK, November 1-8, 2001

a "Tenor original" (Pulse)

"One of the great emergent talents of our time"
(Down Beat, June 1996)

"One of the important jazz figures of his generation"
(The Villager, NYC, July 13th, 1994, NYC)

"A major player in today's creative music"
(Down Beat, September 1995)

"...one foot firmly in the tradition, the other in the cosmos..."
(Time Out New York, August 2000)

"Tenor saxophonist, Ellery Eskelin is without a doubt one of the most important figures in modern jazz improvisation."
(www.allaboutjazz.com)

"...a range of technical / emotional / sonic vocabulary and a bounty of ideas equaling or exceeding
anyone who's ever broken in a reed."
(www.allaboutjazz.com)


Selected Interviews/Articles/Reviews






Articles:
 The New Republic Ellery Eskelin's Musical Democracy / Changing of the Garde by Paul Bennett (web version, 3/8/05)
Feature Cover Story "Unconventional Configuration" in Signal to Noise Magazine, winter 2004
Die Beatles des Avant-Jazz,. in Der Bund 20.12.2004 (pdf file in German)
"New Standards" Time Out New York, May 2004
"EEw/AP+JB(10)" The Squid's Ear, 2004
"Les Trash d¹Ellery Eskelin"www.citizenjazz 2003
Concert preview article 2003 Baltimore City Paper
Concert preview article 2003 Independant Weekly
Concert preview article 2003 The News and Observer
Concert preview article 2003 All About Jazz New York
"Ein Porträt des Saxophonisten Ellery Eskelin NZZ am Sontag / May 19th, 2002 (Switzerland, PDF Acrobat file, in German)
"Fragile Urgency" Coda Magazine, January 2001
Feature cover article Cuadernos de Jazz, March 2001
"The Art, the Facts & the Artifacts" Jazziz, April, 2000
"25 for the Future" Down Beat, June, 1999
"Jump-cut jazz head" The Wire, December, 1996
"Full Tilt" Magnet Magazine, Fall 1997
"Talkin' Trash" Down Beat, September 1995

Interviews:
 El Instruso, interview in Spanish for the website April 2008
Jazz Special, Feature interview in the Danish Jazz Special #100 December 2007 / January 2008
John Coltrane - 80 musiciens de jazz témoignent
(A collection in book form of interviews with 80 musicians on the subject of John Coltrane put together by French journalist Franck Médioni published by Actes Sud in 2007)
Tomajazz, a Spanish website has posted an interview in December 2006 (Spanish/English)
"Macao, actualités du jazz" website has posted an interview (french/english) February 2006
The French magazine of philosophy, politics, esthetics: MULTITUDES (in French)
Recent Interview posted at jazz-actuel.com, June 2002 (in French)
Interview posted at Jazz Weekly.com, July 2000
Interview on the All About Jazz website, October, 1999
Eskelin Responses to Jazz Magazine (Paris) Interview, April, 1999
Interview by Art Lange, for the Hat Art web site
Interview by Yves Citton, Spring 1998 for Discourse Magazine
Jazzthetik, December 1997
Interview for Cadence Magazine, April 1998
WNUR (Chicago), April 30, 1996
The Alliance for Improvised Music (North Carolina)
Le Jazz #7 (Paris), March, 1998, along with Mark Helias.
Jazzosphere interview

Interviews Regarding Rodd Keith...
 "This American Life" on Public Radio International
"Fresh Air" on National Public Radio, 12/3/1996

Reviews:
 "Ten" is reviewed in Neue Zurcher Zeitung am Sonntag 7.11.04

The Birmingham Post Reviews "Arcanum Moderne"
The Guardian reviews Eskelin w/ Parkins & Black live in leeds (UK)
Le Jazz reviews some live Festival appearances (in French)
The Chicago Reader's choice, live preview
Some Swiss commentary on Ellery Eskelin (in French)
Some Swiss commentary from Weltwoche on Ellery Eskelin (in Duetch)

Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland) reviews "12 (+1) Imaginary Views", 28. März 2002
Cadence Magazine reviews "12 (+1) Imaginary Views", September 2002.

Down Beat Magazine reviews Vanishing Point, May 2002
JazzTimes Magazine reviews Vanishing Point, May 2002
The French magazine Diapason reviews Vanishing Point (February 2002)

Down Beat magazine reviews The Secret Museum
Süddeutsche Zeitung reviews The Secret Museum (in Duetch)
Jazz Times magazine reviews The Secret Museum
Signal to Noise magazine reviews The Secret Museum

All About Jazz reviews Ramifications
Bill Shoemaker reviews Ramifications for Sonic Net
JazzTimes reviews Ramifications on the February 2001 issue.

JAZZIZ reviews Dissonant Characters
Time Out New York reviews Dissonant Characters
All About Jazz reviews Dissonant Characters
Cadence Magazine reviews Dissonant Characters
ImproJazz reviews Dissonant Characters(in french)
The Wire reviews Dissonant Characters

Cadence Magazine reviews Five Other Pieces (+2)
Owen Cordel Reviews Five Other Pieces (+2)"
Two French reviews of Five Other Pieces (+2)" (in french)
Sud Ouest reviews Five Other Pieces (+2)" (in french)
JazzMan reviews Five Other Pieces (+2)" (in french)

All About Jazz reviews Kulak 29 & 30
Cadence Magazine reviews Kulak 29 & 30
College Music Journal reviews Kulak 29 & 30
Signal to Noise reviews Kulak 29 & 30
Motion Web reviews Kulak 29 & 30

All About Jazz reviews three recordings

The New York Times reviews several recordings, Tuesday, August 13, 1996

DownBeat Magazine Reviews "One Great Day..."
Jazziz Magazine Reviews "One Great Day..."
JazzRed reviews One Great Day... (in Spanish)
Le Jazz reviews One Great Day...
The Wire reviews One Great Day...
The Chicago Reader choses One Great Day... in it's 1997 top ten list
StadtRevue - Jazz Trash & One Great Day...(in German)

David Strauss Reviews "Green Bermudas"
A review of Green Bermudas from JazzTimes Magazine. December 3rd, 1996
Perhaps he most outrageous review ever printed by this magazine...Quite a badge of honor!

The Austin Chronical reviews The Sun Died
The Chicago Sun Times reviews The Sun Died
College Music Journal reviews The Sun Died
The New York Times choses The Sun Died in it's 1996 top ten list
Cups- The Cafe Culture Magazine - reviews The Sun Died
DownBeat Magazine Reviews "The Sun Died" & "Jazz Trash"

All Music Guide reviews Jazz Trash
JazzMan reviews Jazz Trash (in French)

A live concert review from The Observer, Durham, NC, September 20, 1997
A live concert review from Spectator Magazine
A live concert review from Birmingham, England


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