Planet Jazz

Formed in the first 90s by drummer Johnny Ellis (b. 1955, Trenton, NJ, USA, d. 1999, USA), the music group played frequently in NEW YORK, frequently at Smalls, where it could continue through in to the middle-00s. Unusually for enough time and place, the music group chose to main itself musically in the past due swing period period, drawing specifically from your ethos of music that experienced then been going through switch to early bop. Having said that, the music group’s repertoire was originally drawn mainly from compositions by Ellis. Others within the music group at that time had been Joe Magnarelli (trumpet), Give Stewart (tenor saxophone), Spike Wilner (piano), Peter Bernstein (acoustic guitar), and Neil Miner (bass). Ellis passed away in 1999, as well as the repertoire modified somewhat, given that no fresh works had been via his pen. There is no faltering within the sextet’s rhythmic pulse, nevertheless, as Ellis’ alternative, Joe Strasser, ably slipped in to the founded groove. The music group’s repertoire contains ‘Mommy, Mommy NO!’, ‘The Squirrel IS REALLY A Woman’, ‘Sonora’ (a Hampton Hawes piece), ‘Dual Highway’ (a bluesy Duke Ellington – Johnny Hodges structure), ‘Buttermoose’, ‘The Cow Is Right now’, ‘The Lemur IS REALLY A Dreamer’ and ‘Dawn WITHIN THE Desert’. Beyond your sextet, Stewart offers documented albums under his personal name including WITHIN THE Still Of THE NIGHT TIME, Give Stewart + 4 and Tenor And Spirit. (NB: Never to be puzzled with the German ambient dance take action of the same name.)