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

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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