Liberty Ellman

Liberty Ellman (2015)

Liberty Ellman (* 1971 in London , Great Britain) is an American jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Ellman spent his childhood in New York until he was eleven, then lived in San Francisco, where he attended high school. He studied music at California State University in Sonoma and worked with Brad Hargreaves , who would later become the drummer of his band, and musicians such as D'Armous Boone , Vijay Iyer and Rudresh Mahanthappa . He has also performed with the hip-hop groups The Coup and Midnight Voices , the rhythm and blues group Anibade and the koto player Miya Masaoka and has composed for the San Francisco Mime Troupe , a political theater group.

In 1997, Ellman founded the Red Giant Records label , where his debut album Orthodoxy was released. In 1998 he returned to New York, where he worked with his own trio (with Stephan Crump and Derrek Phillips ) and as a sideman to Greg Osby , Henry Threadgill , Steven Bernstein , Butch Morris and Josh Roseman ( Treats for the Nightwalker , 2003) . He also became a member of Threadgill's band ZOOID .

Discographic notes

Orthodoxy (Noir, 1997) with Eric Crystal , Vijay Iyer, DJ Pause , K. Ellington Mingus , Hillel Familant , Rahsaan Fredericks , Babou Sagna , EW Wainwright , Brad Hargreaves
Tactiles ( Pi Recordings , 2002) with Mark Shim , Greg Osby, Stephan Crump, Eric Harland
Ophiuchus Butterfly (2006) with Steve Lehman , Mark Shim, Jose Davila , Stephan Crump, Gerald Cleaver
Jason Robinson , JD Parran , Marty Ehrlich , Marcus Rojas , Bill Lowe , Liberty Ellman, Drew Gress , George Schuller , Ches Smith Tiresian Symmetry ( Cuneiform Records , 2012)
Radiate (Pi Recordings, 2015), with Jonathan Finlayson , José Davila , Steve Lehman, Stephan Crump, Damion Reid
Last Desert (Pi, 2020) dto

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personal data
SURNAME	Ellman, Liberty
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH	1971
PLACE OF BIRTH	London , UK