''Ophiuchus Butterfly'' is an album by jazz guitarist Liberty Ellman, which was recorded in 2005 and released on Pi Recordings. He leads a sextet with Steve Lehman on alto sax, Mark Shim on tenor sax, Jose Davila on tuba, Stephan Crump on bass and Gerald Cleaver on drums.''Ophiuchus Butterfly''
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Reception

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, Scott Yanow states "This music will take a bit of patience but it is worth the time for Ellman's music is quite original and subtle." The

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review by Mark F. Turner notes "The creative and exhilarating ''Ophiuchus Butterfly'' finds Ellman digging deeper into eccentric and progressive territories with a sextet of like-minded artists with distinct voices."Turner, Mark F
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'', Will Layman says "Ophiuchus Butterfly is reserved in its solo statements, but exuberant in its rhythms and construction."Layman, Will
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'' review by Aaron Steinberg states "Ellman still likes his funk and bop, but he’s now thinking in bigger structures, more complicated voicings and in textures."Steinberg, Aaro
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Track listing

All Compositions by Liberty Ellman # "Ophiuchus Butterfly" – 6:33 # "Aestivation" – 6:56 # "Snow Lips" – 4:09 # "You Have Ears" – 6:35 # "The Naturalists" – 1:51 # "Pretty Words, Like Blades" – 4:34 # "Tarmacadam" – 7:08 # "Looking Up" – 7:58 # "Chromos" – 8:48 # "Borealis" – 3:05

Personnel

* Liberty Ellman –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also synthesiser or synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis a ...

, sampler * Steve Lehman –

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

* Mark Shim –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

* Jose Davila –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

* Stephan Crump –

acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than, a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar an ...

* Gerald Cleaver –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

References

{{Authority control 2006 albums Liberty Ellman albums Pi Recordings albums