Herb Ellis

A fantastic bop-based guitarist with hook nation twang to his audio, Herb Ellis became well-known using the Oscar Peterson Trio during 1953-1958. Ahead of that, he previously attended North Tx State School and used the Casa Loma Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey (1945-1947), as well as the unfortunately under-recorded trio Soft Winds. While with Peterson, Ellis was on some Jazz on the Philharmonic travels and had several opportunities to business lead his own schedules for Verve, including his personal preferred, ONLY the Blues (1957). After departing Peterson, Ellis toured a little with Ella Fitzgerald; became a studio room musician over the Western world Coast; made periods using the Dukes of Dixieland, Stuff Smith, and Charlie Byrd; and in the 1970s became a lot more mixed up in jazz world. He is able to be heard over the initial three releases released with the Concord label, getting together with Joe Spread the original two, and he toured with the fantastic Guitars (alongside Byrd and Barney Kessel) through a lot of the 1970s in to the ’80s. Following a long group of Concord albums, Ellis trim several excellent sessions within the 1990s for Justice, in addition to 1999’s Burnin’ on Acoustic Music. After fighting Alzheimer’s disease, Supplement Ellis passed away at age 88 at his house in LA on March 28, 2010.