Out of Nowhere is an album by trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1961 but not released on the Candid label until 1988.[1][2]

Out of Nowhere
Studio album by Don Ellis
Released	1988
Recorded	April 21, 1961 Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Length	44:28
Label	Candid CS 9032
Producer	Nat Hentoff
Don Ellis chronology
How Time Passes (1960) Out of Nowhere (1988) New Ideas (1961)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[4]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "The players constantly take chances with time but there are few slipups or hesitant moments. A fascinating and long-lost session".[3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz said "Ellis plays lines and melodic inversions of considerable inventiveness, always striking out for the microtonal terrain he was to colonise later in the '60s".[4]

Track listing

1. "Sweet and Lovely" (Gus Arnheim, Jules LeMare, Harry Tobias) - 6:11
2. "My Funny Valentine" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 4:28
3. "I Love You" [take 2] (Cole Porter) - 4:39
4. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) - 3:33
5. "Just One of Those Things" [take 8] (Porter) - 3:41
6. "You Stepped out of a Dream" (Nacio Herb Brown, Gus Kahn) - 3:46
7. "All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 6:10
8. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 3:45
9. "Just One of Those Things" [take 5] (Porter) - 3:32 Bonus track on CD reissue
10. "I Love You" [take 1] (Porter) - 5:36 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

• Don Ellis - trumpet
• Paul Bley - piano
• Steve Swallow - bass

References