Ted

Bio:

TED DANIEL Ted began his professional career playing local gigs with his childhood friend, the legendary guitarist, Sonny Sharrock. Mr. Daniel briefly attended Berklee School of music and Southern Illinois University before a tour of duty will U.S. Army Bands. After his discharge from the Army, Mr. Daniel attended Central State College, in Ohio, on a full music scholarship where he met and studied with Dr. Ken Makanda McIntyre. After a year, Mr. Daniel returned to NYC and eventually received a bachelor of music degree in theory and composition from the City College of New York. Mr. Daniel had begun his recording career while in Ohio returning to New York to record Sonny Sharrock's first album “Black Woman”. His second recording was with a band he co-lead (Brute Force) with his brother, Richard Daniel. The recording was entitled “Brute Force” on the Embryo label, produced by Herbie Mann. Since then, Mr. Daniel has participated in over thirty published recordings with such great artist such as: Archie Shepp, Dewey Redman, Andrew Cyrille, Sam Rivers, Billy Bang and Henry Threadgill. Mr. Daniel has held workshops at Amherst College, Bennington College, Williams College and the University of Hosei in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Daniel has also conducted a seminar in Madrid, Spain as well as work in his community conducting summer music workshops for high and college age students. Mr. Daniel has produced three albums under his own name, which are entitled “The Ted Daniel Sextet” on Ujamaa records, “Tapestry” on Sun records and “In The Beginning” on Altura recordings. This last recording is a twelve-piece ensemble featuring such artist as Oliver Lake, Arthur Blythe, Charles Tyler and David Murray. Eventually this ensemble evolved into a larger group entitled “Energy”. Mr. Daniel has been the recipient of a NEA compositional grant and awarded Talent Deserving Wider recognition from Downbeat Magazine. Presently, Mr. Daniel is writing and performing with his new group, the International Brass and Membrane Corps (IBMC). This trio was conceived as a flexible and expandable creative music performance group, which utilizes instruments from the brass and membrane instrument families. Also, Mr. Daniel made several recordings with Charles Compo’s THE PHIBES group. Most recently Ted has formed a duo with Michael Marcus on Bb clarinet and Ted on Trumpet and assorted brass, their first release is entitled “DUOLOGY”. Porter Records has reissued Ted’s Tapestry album with a bonus track from the original performance of 1974 and DUOLOGY released their second CD on Soulnote Records intitled GOLDEN ATOMS.

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Member Since:

February 26, 2007

Sounds Like:

The wide range of trumpeter Ted Daniel’s projects, from the “free soul” Brute Force ensemble to working with the creative big band Energy in the late ‘70s, is bolstered by the recent issue of his cd TED DANIEL TRIO - The Loft Years Vol 1. Recorded live at Sunrise Studio, NYC in September of 1975 and featuring Ted Daniel on trumpet, flugelhorn & French hunting horn, Richard Pierce on bass and Tatsuya Nakamura on drums. Ted is overflowing with fire, energy and creative ideas as he soars above the burning rhythm team. This is the way I remember the loft jazz scene; fire music bursting with unrelenting energyand power! Drummer Tatsuya reminds me of Marc Edwards as he pushes Ted's trumpet higher and more furiously, Pierce takes a strong acoustic bass solo with Tatsuya accompanying him minimally, followed by a most impressive drum solo. Sunny Murray's "Jiblet" is a piece with twisted by tight rhythms, no doubt difficult to play yet the trio navigates the complex rapids with ease. Again the interplay between Mr. Daniel and Mr. Nakamura is simply incredible as they play their streams of notes tightly together. I dig the spinning percussion that starts off "The Moor" featuring Ted's Muted trumpet and some cosmically strummed contrabass. The final tune is called "O.C." and just might be dedicated to Ornette Coleman. Again the trio spins their lines tightly together with invigorating force. If you long for the days when you could hear music like this on a weekly basis, this disc wil do the trick. - Bruce Gallanter,

Record Label:

Ujamaa Records