Edward Petersen is the Associate Chair of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches Applied Saxophone, Jazz Improvisation and directs the UNO Louis Armstrong Quintet. He has recently performed with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra ( http://www.www.thenojo.com )at the Ravinia Festival, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, The Clearwater Jazz Festival, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Symphony Center (Chicago), Orchestra Hall (Minneapolis), and at Lincoln Center. He has played with J.J. Johnson, Johnny Griffin, Clifford Jordan, Wilbur Campbell, Herlin Riley, Jay McShann, Lionel Hampton, Henry Butler, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Ira Sullivan, Eddie Harris, David Liebman, Ellis Marsalis, Dr. John, Ernie Watts and many others. He has recorded with Kurt Elling, Ron Carter, Cedar Walton, Laurence Hobgood, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Willie Pickens, Von Freeman, Brian Seeger, Fareed Haque, Jason Marsalis, Ramsey Lewis, Frank Mantooth, Johnny Adams, and Ruth Brown. His playing and musical compositions are featured on numerous other recordings, including three Grammy-nominated Blue Note CD’s by Kurt Elling, Close Your Eyes, The Messenger, and Live in Chicago and several releases under his own name on the Delmark label, Upward Spiral, The Haint, and Von and Ed, which also features the legendary Chicago saxophonist, Von Freeman. He produced, edited, mastered, and performed on a recent CD featuring Jason Marsalis and Brian Seeger entitled Finger to the Universe (Lakefront Digital Records). He also co-produced, edited, mastered, and performed on three CDs by the Thrascher Saxophone Quartet, A Sound Thrasching, Another Sound Thrasching, and Axes of Evil, He also composed and arranged much of the music for these discs and for a new CD that is scheduled for release in 2008...............Ed is an Artist/Clinician for Julius Keilwerth Saxophones. He has recently conducted workshops and performances at the University of Illinois, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Texas Wesleyan University, Roosevelt University, Prairie State College, the Rotterdam Conservatory, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Penn State, Collin College, Prairie State College, Missouri State University, University of Texas-Tyler, the Texas Music Educators Association convention, The Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp (New Orleans), and the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He received a Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Music Performance in 2002 and has received Special Composer’s Awards from ASCAP nine times...................Please go to http://www.jazz-ed.net for FREE MUSIC AND BOOK DOWNLOADS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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