Ellis Day

A fiery guitarist and talented songwriter who plays a unique blend of Memphis R&B, southwest blues, and urban funk. Collection includes: Hell Or High Water (2002); The Hard Way (2004); Moment Of Truth (2007); Speak No Evil (2009); Red Clay Soul (2016); Winning Hand (2018).

With each successive album, Tinsley Ellis has moved further and further away from mainstream blues grooves and closer and closer to hard rock. While his guitar playing is as explosive as ever, it also remains unfocused, the end result being soloing that never reaches a musical climax, but is nonetheless played with an unrelenting energy that music fans who like their blues with rock muscles will appreciate. Tracks like "Diggin' My Own Grave," "One Sunny Day," "Soulful," "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," and "I Walk Alone" sound like they could be on anybody's blues-rock or roots rock album, and even legendary producer Tom Dowd can't do much with Ellis' consistently flat and generally lifeless vocals.

Three Phenomenal Guitarists From The Famous Door Record Label. The three enjoyable straight ahead jazz sessions that are reissued in this package have several things in common. They have been out-of-print for years, they are led by talented guitarists who are stimulated by the presence of two other major soloists, each date fatures a quintet that includes swinging bass and drum team, and all of the projects came about due to the guidance of producer Harry Lim, a true friend of Jazz…

Killer first official Live disc by this amazing, bad-ass axeripper from San Diego. Includes 13 tracks (73 minutes) of mega-awesome, brain-damaging, retro-sonic, over-the-top, blues-based, heavy guitar power trio riffage/mojo that will kick your ass and rock your world into the next guitar rockin' musical dimension. Captured live & loud without a net, we are transformed from the norm and experience "Total Guitar Rock Fury" of the highest order from this phenomenal, supreme guitarist. Brett Ellis is a true modern day guitar hero who speaks the same musical language as the guitar greats. The man is a veritable + powerful six string hurricane on the instrument, an awesome beyond belief heavy guitar rock force to be reckoned with.

High Caliber Explosive Rock Blues, Drenched in Originality, Strong Songs, Diversity and Unmistakable Style! This Talented group of superstar caliber musicians is lead guitarist/singer/songwriter extraordinaire Brett Ellis. For over 20 years Brett has been and continues to be a mainstay in the San Diego music scene. The Brett Ellis Band Brett Ellis (guitars & vocals) Rick Nash (Bass) Calvin Lakin (Drums) Is his most recent endeavor. They have mastered the art of hard rock and blues and continue to push the envelope. Brett has worked with and opened for the who's who in the music industry. Such as Eric Johnson, Edgar Winter, Foghat, Sammy Hagar, Glen Hughes (Deep Purple) Uli Jon Roth, Carl Palmer, King's X, Bad Company and Pat Travers.

Don Ellis' Connection, issued in 1972, was a brazen attempt at swinging for the chart fences. Most of the tunes selected come right from the pop vernacular of the day. They range from a barnburning read of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's theme for "Jesus Christ Superstar" and a dirty funk approach to Carole King's "I Feel the Earth Move" to a provocative and spacy cover of Procol Harum's "Conquistador" that feels like the horn chart for Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" wedded to Mason Williams' "Classical Gas" trumped by Stan Kenton in the mid-'50s. While the description may read atrociously, sonically and aesthetically the set comes off far better. Ellis incorporated inventive, in-your-face, swaggering arrangements into his hearing and execution of pop's possibilities in the jazz world of the early '70s…