Since
the forties, big bands were increasingly the domain of white
musicians.In the course of the sixties, Don Ellis outdistanced the
metric preoccupations of jazz-rock. Carla Bley, with her compositions
evoking the worlds of Charles Ives, Eric Satie and Kurt Weill,
introduced a dimension of parody.
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| Don Ellis Big Band |
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| Don Ellis |
As for Gil Evans
and George Russell, their invariably avant-garde writing led them to the
dismantling of the structures of the big band, frequently shrinking the
wind section, shifting the weight to the rhythm section, and adopting a
freedom inherited from free jazz.
Aura (1989) was the first record Miles Davis brought out with a large group since he recorded
Quiet Night with Gill Evans in 1962.
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