Now accepting trumpet students!!

Inspiring and effective trumpet lessons for players of all ages and levels of experience. I have over 20 years of experience teaching students from age 5 to 75, beginners to professionals, as well as students with special needs.

We'll study the fundamentals of the instrument in a creative and positive way that applies to all styles of music. You`ll gain strength and flexibility as a player and deepen your understanding of the trumpet as a creative musical instrument, and you'll have fun! My area of expertise is in jazz, improvisation, composition, and theory.

About me:
I have been playing the trumpet for over 25 years. I started teaching professionally at the age of 15...and I have been refining my methods for over 20 years. I have studied at the University of Toronto, York University, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, and for 10 years in New York with master teacher Laurie Frink. I perform and tour regularly, at venues including the Montreal and Vancouver International Jazz Festivals. I have played on 50 recordings.

I teach at my Montreal studio or at your home anywhere in Montreal.

You can hear some of my work at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtN_UnKT8B0

Repetitions, versions... 2 ad hoc performances

Everything is new, and some things never get old, and nothing is new under the sun...

A few days ago I had the pleasure of playing 2 sets of Ornette Coleman's music with a quartet including Jean Derome. Jean is among two or three people I play with regularly who always and absolutely brings it each time he performs. Jean doesn't let the fire go out on stage, and I am lucky to have 2 more opportunities to share the fire with him soon. The rooms we are playing in are special too: over and over new breath blowing on the coals to bring the flames up!!

1 Octobre: 

Jean Derome (alto sax), Ellwood Epps (trompette), Scott Thomson (trombone)
Mardi Spaghetti @ Le Cagibi, 5490 St-Laurent
9pm, $5+ contribution suggested
www.mardispaghetti.blogspot.com

9 octobre:
Jean Derome (alto sax), Ellwood Epps (trompette), Scott Thomson (trombone), Martin Tétreault (turntables)
2 sets!
Mercredi Music @ Casa Obscura, 4381 Papineau
9pm, $5+ contribution suggested
www.casaobscura.org

If you don't know Jean Derome's music, these are great chances to discover it. I hope you can be there to be part of the energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Derome

Derome/Epps/Lumley/Tanguay joue Ornette: 24 septembre au Résonance Café

mardi le 24 septembre

Résonance Café  5175A Ave du Parc (coin Fairmount)

2sets starting at 9pm   $8

Jean Derome.....sax alto
Ellwood Epps.....trompette
Aaron Lumley.....contrebasse
Pierre Tanguay.....batterie

After succesful shows at L'envers and La Brique, four of Montreal's hottest improvisers are back playing more music they love, by Ornette Coleman. The band got its start several years ago in the city's underground loft scene playing at a celebration of Coleman's birthday.The on-stage chemistry of the four players has brought three generations of musicians together to explore the huge body of work that American master-musician Ornette Coleman is still building now, 55 years after his first released recordings.

http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/derome_je/
www.ellwoodepps.blogspot.com
www.aaronlumley.ca
http://www.actuellecd.com/fr/bio/tanguay_pi/

www.resonancecafe.com

Studio d'Improvisation de Montréal!

Concert and Fall Session

We are closing out our summer session with a concert this Sunday, July 21 at La Brique. It has been a rewarding session for me and for the 12 participants of the Studio d'Improvisation de Montréal. We've worked and played hard (and sweated through some hot afternoons!), and we're happy to be presenting our music to you in concert. Come and hear what's new!

I am also announcing the fall session, which runs four Sunday afternoons beginning September 15th. The workshop is open to musicians of all levels and experiences, no matter what your instrument. The focus is on improvising in a group context. It's fun, challenging, and rewarding. You can find all the details at www.studioimpromontreal.blogspot.com

Concert info is in the calendar section of this page, or go to https://www.facebook.com/events/189242451243162/.

4 New Recordings!

I'm happy to have a new batch or recorded music out in the world. I'm especially happy about the Land of Marigold record. The music on this record is exactly what we do, and it took us 5 years to convince someone to release it. Please buy some records and help feed a musician. 

2 from the Tour de Bras label, based in Rimouski, Québec:

Mecha Fixes Clocks 'Beau comme un aéroport'
(CD and download)


philippe lauzier (sax alto, clarinette basse), elwood epps (trompette), jean rené (alto), pierre-yves martel (viole de gambe, feedback), bernard falaise (guitare), guillaume dostaler (piano), michel f côté (batterie, feedbaks et microphones)

released 07 June 2013
musique : michel f côté
production : tiari kese & michel f côté / tour de bras 2013
enregistrement : robert langlois, studio 270, montréal
mix: michel f côté, chopping center
mastering : harris newman, grey market
image : Éric Aubertin
graphisme : Marie-Pierre Morin
http://tourdebras.bandcamp.com/album/mecha-fixes-clocks-beau-comme-un-a-roport

Pink Saliva, ''Il paraît que''(download MP3, flac, etc)

Ellwood Epps (trompette, amplifier)
Alexandre St-Onge (basse electrique, laptop)
Michel F. Côté (batterie, feedback) 

enregistré par Mathieu Bélanger à L'envers, Montréal
4 novembre 2010, partie de 'Michel F Côté's 3-Night-Stand' 
http://tourdebras.bandcamp.com/album/pink-saliva-il-para-t-que

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and two from the Bug Incision label in Calgary, Alberta:

Land of Marigold 'Land of Marigold'

Josh Zubot (violin, low octave violin)
Ellwood Epps (trumpet)

recorded in Montreal 2008
mastered by Jesse Zubot

The Unrepeatable Quartet 'Calgary 2012'

Jack Wright: soprano & alto sax
Ellwood Epps: trumpet
Scott Munro: double bass, trombone, electronics
Chris Dadge: drumset, percussion

recorded live at the National Music Centre 

November 15 2012

http://bugincision.com/releases.html
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Mail order them, download them, or if you're very kind, purchase them directly from me at a show.

Land of Marigold Album Launch: Saturday June 8!

We are launching our first recording!

It's a self-titled CDR from Calgary's amazing Bug Incision label and we are VERY happy about the music and how well it was recorded.

Land of Marigold is Josh Zubot playing violin, and Ellwood Epps playing trumpet. We have been playing as a duet for about 5 years, and you might have heard us playing together with the Ratchet Orchestra, William Parker, Myra Melford, Marshall Allen, John Butcher, Mecha Fixes Clocks, and Matana Roberts' Coin Coin.

We're celebrating with 2 live sets on the 8th of June at the beautiful new dance studio La Poêle, where you may have had the chance to hear Josh along with Tristan Honsinger and Nicolas Caloia back in April.

We really hope to see you at this very special celebration of creative music!

On lance notre premier enregistrement!

C'est un CDR sur l’étiquette de Calgary 'Bug Incision', intitulé 'Land of Marigold'. On est TRÈS heureux de cette musique.

Land of Marigold est composé de Josh Zubot au violon et d’Ellwood Epps à la trompette. On a joué en duo pendant 5 années et également avec le Ratchet Orchestra, William Parker, Myra Melford, Marshall Allen, John Butcher, Mecha Fixes Clocks et Matana Roberts.

On jouera deux sets live le 8 juin à La Poêle, nouveau studio de danse où peut-être vous avez dejà entendu mssr. Z. en avril avec Tristan Honsinger et Nicolas Caloia.

On espère que vous serez là pour célébrer cette soirée et ce disque avec nous!

Saturday June 8 in Montreal!
La Pôele
Entrance is at 5334 De Gaspé (small door).
Take the elevator and go to studio #307.
Doors open at 830, music starts at 9.
$10 included 2 sets of live music + the CD!
($7 show only)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Gc-inThB0
www.ellwoodepps.blogspot.com
www.joshzubot.ca
www.bugincision.com
http://lapoele307.wordpress.com/

Event photo credit: Steve Louie

Live performance on CHOQ.fm this Thursday morning!

I will be one of several guests this Thursday (May 30) at 11 am on www.choq.fm! We will be playing and talking about upcoming performances, including the Ratchet Orchestra's performance of Malcolm Goldstein's music on June 12 as part of the Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival here in Montreal. The show is about an hour long and the music will likely be in the second half. The program is called ''Spontanées'' and can be heard each Thursday morning. I'm grateful for the chance to play and talk about the music!

If you can't listen live, the show will be archived here: http://www.choq.fm/spontanees.html.

Isaiah Ceccarelli, percussion
Olivier Prud'homme-Richard, guitar
Ellwood Epps, trompette
Philippe Lauzier, clarinette, saxophone