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John Ellis Double-Wide, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2012

By Patrick Jarenwattananon
Published August 4, 2012 at 2:18 PM EDT
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Saxophonist John Ellis (center) performs with Matt Perrine (left) on sousaphone at the 2012 Newport Jazz Festival.

The tenor saxophonist John Ellis is a commanding instrumentalist with a most gorgeous, carmelized tone. And though he now lives in New York, his band gives away the fact that he learned an awful lot in New Orleans. A chunk of Double-Wide lives there — notably, Matt Perrine (sousaphone) and Jason Marsalis (drums) — and the Crescent City's carnivalesque and high-stepping timbres are refracted through Ellis' tunes. You can take the boy out of the South, but you can't take the South out of his musical vision.

Set List

  • "Okra & Tomatoes" (Ellis)

  • "Zydeco Clowns on the Lam" (Ellis)

  • "Dewey Dah" (Ellis)

  • "3-Legged Tango in Jackson Square" (Ellis)

  • "Dubinland Carnival" (Ellis)

  • "This Too Shall Pass" (Ellis)

  • "Break Tune" (Ellis)

    • Personnel

  • John Ellis, tenor saxophone

  • Gary Versace, organ/accordion

  • Matt Perrine, sousaphone

  • Jason Marsalis, drums

  • Alan Ferber, trombone

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