How Time Passes is the debut album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1960 and released on the Candid label.[1][2]

How Time Passes
Studio album by
Released1960
RecordedOctober 4 and 5, 1960
Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City
GenreJazz
Length45:16
LabelCandid
CJM-8004/CJS-9004
ProducerNat Hentoff
Don Ellis chronology
How Time Passes
(1960)
Out of Nowhere
(1961)

Reception edit

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]
Jazzwise     [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz    [5]

Scott Yanow of Allmusic states, "Trumpeter Don Ellis' initial recording as a leader (and first of four small group dates from the 1960-1962 period) found him stretching the boundaries of bop-based jazz and experimenting a bit with time and tempo... Although these musical experiments failed to be influential (Ellis himself went in a different direction a few years later), the unpredictable music is still quite interesting to hear".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz award the album 3 stars.[5]

Track listing edit

All compositions by Don Ellis except as indicated

  1. "How Time Passes" - 6:30
  2. "Sallie" - 4:38
  3. "A Simplex One" - 4:17
  4. "Waste" (Jaki Byard) - 8:15
  5. "Improvisational Suite #1" - 22:18

Personnel edit

References edit

  1. ^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. The Candid Label Album Discography accessed May 24, 2013
  2. ^ Don Ellis discography Archived 2013-05-18 at the Wayback Machine accessed May 24, 2013
  3. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed May 24, 2013
  4. ^ Nicholson, Stuart (December 2023 – January 2024). "Don Ellis: How Time Passes". Jazzwise. No. 291. p. 47.
  5. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (8th ed.). London: Penguin. pp. 408. ISBN 0141023279.