By Sean Fenlon on March 12, 2014 in

I originally launched DonEllisMusic.com in 2001. I am happy to announce the official re-launch of DonEllisMusic.com in 2014, with a fresh new design and re-imagined as a blog. My name is Sean Fenlon, and I am a huge admirer of Don Ellis and his art. I was first introduced to the music of Don Ellis […]

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By SPF Webmaster on September 7, 2026 in

For the first time online: a complete digital reconstruction of Don Ellis’s rare book Rhythm, photographed from one of the few extant copies and paired with a full content analysis reconciled with Sean P. Fenlon’s dissertation The Exotic Rhythms of Don Ellis.

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By Sean Fenlon on December 22, 2022 in

I emailed Pat Metheny back and forth and talked to him on the phone once in the late 1990’s. He shared his thoughts about Don Ellis back then 🙂 This Q&A by Pat Metheny about Don Ellis was published on the official PatMetheny.com website in 2013: “I was a big fan of Don Ellis. In […]

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By Sean Fenlon on November 18, 2014 in

Live performance of Niner Two by The Don Ellis Orchestra at the Montreux Jazz Festival on July 8, 1977.

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