Charlee Ellerbe and Prime Time (1975-1989)

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Interview


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Charlee Ellerbe recounts his early music training in his home town of Philadelphia, how he became a member of Prime Time and the experience of working with Ornette.

Charlee began working with Ornette and Prime Time in 1975.

Left to right – Charlee Ellerbe, Ornette Coleman, Bern Nix

Contact info for Charlee: ellerbeat AT gmail DOT com

Video courtesy of Jazz Bridge, a nonprofit that aids Philadelphia professional jazz and blues musicians in crisis.


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Interview with James Catchpole

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TokyoJazzSite.com – The ultimate English language guide to the world’s biggest (and best hidden) jazz scene

Interview

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Project by James:

TokyoJazzSite.com – The ultimate guide to jazz in Tokyo and beyond
TokyoJazzJoints.com – Photo project documenting the old, hidden jazz joints of the Tokyo metropolitan area
OKJazzPodcast – Jazz, Soul, African and World Music

James is Jazz on the Tube’s official Tokyo correspondent.


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Interview with Philip Arneill of TokyoJazzJoints.com
Documenting Japan’s Jazz Shrines

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Interview


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For more information:

Tokyo Jazz Joints: http://tokyojazzjoints.com

Tokyo Jazz Directory by Mr. OK Jazz: http://tokyojazzsite.com

Philip Arneill/Photography: http://philiparneill.com

Team Love Raven-House Gallery: http://www.tl-rh.com/current-exhibit-2/
(Call gallery for specific summer hours)

UK Jazz Dance aka Bebop Dancing

London

Tokyo


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Ornette: 1930 through the first half of his career

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Ornette Coleman with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell

Two extended pieces on Ornette’s life starting from his birth in Fort Worth, Texas through the 1960s and 1970s, roughly the first half of his career.

You can read these works here:

Four Lives in the Bebop Business
By A.B. Spellman

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American Musicians II: Seventy-One Portraits in Jazz By Whitney Balliett

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Shirley Clarke: “Ornette: Made in America” (1985)

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Starting in the 1960s, filmmaker Shirley Clarke began a film about the life and art of Ornette Coleman. After a hiatus, the project was resumed in the 1980s, updated and released theatrically in 1985.

The trailer

 


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