参演艺人：PEE WEE ELLIS

演出场地：北京 Blue Note Beijing

演出时间

日期/Date：2019年9月13日（周五）

*场1st

入场时间/Door Time：6:00 PM

演出时间/Show Time：7:30PM

第二场2nd

入场时间/Door Time：9:30PM

演出时间/Show Time：10:00PM

票价信息 

B2剧场票价Ticket Price：

420（边座）/500（主座）RMB

Mercedes-Benz JAZZ MASTER SERIES

梅赛德斯-奔驰特别呈现爵士大师堂系列

乐队成员

Pee Wee Ellis - Tenor Sax / Vocals               

Laurence Cottle - Bass

Gareth Williams - Keys

Guido May - Drums

Tony Remy - Guitar

Dennis Rollins - Trombone

James Morton - Alto Sax

Pee Wee Ellis

Pee Wee Ellis，他的故事跨越了60年之久，从50年代开始，他带着萨克斯去纽约寻找心目中的英雄Miles Davis、Thelonious Monk和伟大的Sonny Rollins（后者成为了他的老师和一生的导师）。1965年，他加入了James Brown的乐队演奏中音萨克斯。在不到六个月的时间，他*成为乐队指挥兼音乐总监，并与James Brown合作创作。《Cold Sweat》被广泛认为是*张真正的放克唱片，在接下来的四年里，James Brown的许多热门单曲都是他们一起合作的成果。

1970年，Pee Wee转到了纽约的CTI公司，为Brother Jack McDuff、Esther Phillips、George Benson等人担任音乐制作和指导。1979年在加州，他引起了Van Morrison的注意，并开始了作为Van音乐总监和乐队指挥的五年合作，将专辑中的号角融入音乐中。

20世纪90年代，Pee Wee移居欧洲，开始了他蓬勃发展的独奏生涯，发行了《12 and More Blues》在内的爵士专辑，广受好评。他还与前James Brown校友Maceo Parker和Fred Wesley组成了JB Horns乐队，他们的巡演广受好评。

在这个时候，Pee Wee重新加入了Van Morrison的乐队，担任乐队指挥和编曲，并取得了五年的巨大成功。与此同时，随着非洲和古巴的音乐明星（包括Oumou Sangare、Cheikh Lo、Ali Farke Toure和Buena Vista Social Club的明星Cachaito Lopez和Anga Diaz）为他们的唱片寻找独特的声音，他的声誉变得在全球范围越来越知名。*近，他与Boy George、Joss Stone、George Clinton和Paul Carrack一起编曲并录制专辑。

2000年初，Pee Wee领导了“Still Black, Still Proud”乐队向James Brown致敬，2015至2016年创建Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion乐队。如今，Pee Wee正专注于自己的项目：The Pee Wee Ellis Assembly，仍在全球巡回演出；他正在专注于50年来的自传和选集。2016年，他在阿布扎比纽约大学表演艺术中心（NYU Performing Arts Center）启动了遗产项目FUNK: Evolution of a Revolution，其中包括创新的大师班FUNK 101，事实证明，从阿布扎比到瓜德罗普岛，这是一个巨大的成功。

他定期为学校、社区和大学的教育项目做贡献——2014年，他获得英国Bath Spa University荣誉博士学位，欧洲雅马哈艺术家。Pee Wee Ellis拥有真正丰富的音乐生活。

Few musicians get to celebrate their 75th birthday knee deep in a new project charting the history of funk and its impact on music. Even fewer are still actively touring the world with their own bands or working in new collaborations. But after some 55 eventful years as a musician, band leader, arranger and composer Pee Wee Ellis can claim all those things.

His remarkable story spans six decades, starting in the 50s when he took himself and his sax off to New York city to find his heroes Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and the great Sonny Rollins (who became his teacher and mentor.) A promising career leading jazz bands in Florida took an unexpected turn in the 1965 when he joined James Brown’s sensational Revue, playing alto. Within six months he was bandleader/musical director and was co-writing with James Brown. ‘Cold Sweat’, widely acknowledged as the first true funk record, and many of JB’s hits for the next four years were the fruit of this collaboration.

By 1970 Pee Wee moved on to CTI in New York and was producing and directing for the likes of Brother Jack McDuff, Esther Phillips and George Benson. In 1979 in California he caught the ear of Van Morrison and began a five year spell as Van’s MD/bandleader arranging the horns on albums such a Into the Music, and Common One.

During the 1990’s Pee Wee moved to Europe and pursued a burgeoning solo career, releasing jazz albums including the critically acclaimed ‘12 and More Blues’. He also formed the JB Horns with ex James Brown alumni Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley, who toured widely to great acclaim.

Pee Wee rejoined Van Morrison as bandleader and arranger for five more highly successful years around this time. Meanwhile, his worldwide reputation had become apparent as musical stars from Africa and Cuba (including Oumou Sangare, Cheikh Lo, Ali Farke Touré and Buena Vista Social Club stars Cachaito Lopez and Anga Diaz) sought his distinctive sound for their recordings. Most recently he has arranged for and recorded with Boy George, Joss Stone, George Clinton and Paul Carrack.

Having led the spectacular ‘Still Black, Still Proud’ an African Tribute to James Brown in the early 2000’s and being a founder member of drumming legend Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion in 2015/16, currently Pee Wee is focusing on his own projects: his band The Pee Wee Ellis Assembly still tour worldwide; he is working on his autobiography and an Anthology from his 50 year recording career. In 2016 he launched the the heritage project FUNK: Evolution of a Revolution, at NYU Performing Arts Center in Abu Dhabi, including the innovative masterclass FUNK 101, which has proved to be a great success from Abu Dhabi to Guadeloupe.

He is a regular contributor to educational programmes in schools, communities and universities – a fact recognised when he received an honorary doctorate in 2014, from Bath Spa University in the UK, and as a Yamaha artist in Europe It has been a truly eventful musical life, and the signs are that Pee Wee Ellis has no intention of slowing down for a while yet, birthdays or no birthdays.

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