Soaring is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1973 and released on the MPS label.[1] The album features Hank Levy's composition which provided the title for, and was featured in, the 2014 film Whiplash.[2]

Soaring
Studio album by
Released1973
Recorded1973
GenreJazz, jazz fusion, orchestral jazz
Length42:12
LabelMPS/BASF
MB 25123
ProducerDon Ellis
Don Ellis chronology
Connection
(1972)
Soaring
(1973)
Haiku
(1973)

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [3]

Scott Yanow of AllMusic called it an "underrated set ...well worth searching for".[3] On Jazz History Online, Michael Verity observed "By 1973, when he recorded Soaring, a 10-cut musical haiku, all of his interests were converging into a style that was bold, intensely rhythmic and perfectly calibrated sound for the big screen. (It should be no surprise he was scoring The French Connection at same time he was working on this project)."[4]

Track listing

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All compositions by Don Ellis except as indicated

  1. "Whiplash" (Hank Levy) – 4:25
  2. "Sladka Pitka" (Milcho Leviev) – 6:40
  3. "The Devil Made Me Write This Piece" – 6:00
  4. "Go Back Home" (Sam Falzone) – 3:15
  5. "Invincible" – 6:43
  6. "Image of Maria" – 3:03
  7. "Sidonie" (Alexej Fried) – 6:37
  8. "Nicole" – 5:29

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Don Ellis discography accessed March 5, 2015
  2. ^ Tucker, R., How Miles Teller learned to fake drum like a pro in ‘Whiplash’, New York Post, October 4, 2014
  3. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Don Ellis – Soaring: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  4. ^ Verity, M., Jazz History Online: Don Ellis: Soaring, accessed March 5, 2015