Liberty Ellman

Jazz guitarist and composer Liberty Ellman is a bandleader and first-call sideman for a host of musicians, chief among them Henry Threadgill's Zooid, of which he is a founding member. Ellman not only played on the Pulitzer Prize-winning In for a Penny, In for a Pound, he produced and mixed it. Further, he has worked live and in the studio with some of the more innovative jazz artists of the day including Joe Lovano, Myra Melford's Snowy Egret, Wadada Leo Smith, and many others. His leader recordings include 1998's Orthodoxy, which incorporated odd tempos, dark riffs, and eleme...