Ed Saindon

Ed Saindon (born November 27, 1954 ) is an American jazz musician ( vibraphone , marimba ), author and university teacher.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in 1972, Saindon studied drums at Berklee College of Music with Alan Dawson and, after switching to vibraphone, with Gary Burton . He has been teaching at Berklee since graduating in 1976. His students included u. a. Roland Nephew and Jerry Leake. He also played on a local level in the Boston area , a. a. with musicians like Adam Makowicz , Warren Vaché and Dave McKenna . In 1984 recordings were made with the band Randiance , which also included cellist Eugene Friesen . On the World Mallet label he presented his debut album Spectrum on Different Strokes with a quintet , followed by the album Swing on the Sunnyside with Herb Pomeroy and Dick Johnson , on which he played swing standards such as On the Sunny Side of the Street , Sweet Georgia Brown or Jimmy Van Heusen's It Could Happen to You . As an accompanying musician, he worked a. a. also in recordings by Dick Sudhalter (1998).

Saindon also wrote several textbooks and articles. He is the editor of Percussive Notes magazine , published by the International Percussive Arts Society . He also wrote for Downbeat and Percussioner International .

Publications

• Berklee Practice Method: Vibraphone (Berklee Press)
• Exploration in Rhythm, Volume 1, Rhythmic Phrasing in Improvisation (Advance Music)

Discographic notes

• Randiance: A Song for the Earth (1984)
• Swing on the Sunnyside (Challenge, 1995) with Herb Pomeroy, Matt Gordy, Barry Smith
• Great American Songbook (Big City Jazz, 1999) with Warren Vaché, Ken Peplowski
• Key Play (2004) with Kenny Werner

Web links

• Portrait at All About Jazz
• Ed Saindon at Allmusic (English)
• Ed Saindon at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .