Ezz-thetics

Infobox Album
Name = Ezz-thetics
Type = Album
Artist = George Russell Sextet


Released = 1961
Recorded = May 8, 1961
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Free jazz
Post-bop
Length = 42:29
Label = Riverside Records
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fcfpxqygld6e]
Last album = "Stratosphunk"
(1960)
This album = "Ezz-thetics"
(1961)
Next album = "The Stratus Seekers"
(1962)

"Ezz-thetics" is an album by a sextet led by the jazz composer George Russell. It features a re-reading of Russell's title composition and a radical reworking of Thelonious Monk's standard "Round Midnight" with an extended solo by Eric Dolphy.

Track listing

# Ezz-thetic (Russell) 8:57
# Nardis (Miles Davis) 4:34
# Lydiot (Russell) 8:06
# Thoughts (Russell) 5:26
# Honesty (Dave Baker) 8:55
# Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) 6:29
# Kige's Tune (Al Kiger) (take 2) *
# Kige's Tune (Al Kiger) (take 5) *

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Personnel

*George Russell - piano, arranger
*Don Ellis - trumpet
*Dave Baker - trombone
*Eric Dolphy - alto sax and bass clarinet (tracks 2 and 4 only)
*Steve Swallow - bass
*Joe Hunt - drums