Ed Sarath

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Edward W. "Ed" Sarath (* around 1953) is an American musicologist , flugelhorn player and composer who has made a name for himself in the fields of jazz and new improvisational music.

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Sarath played the trumpet from the age of ten ; in high school he found his way into jazz through Bill Chase . He studied music at Western Connecticut State University and the University of Iowa . There he was a lecturer from 1984 to 1987 and also directed the Iowa City Jazz Orchestra. He also played in his own combos. In 1987 he was appointed professor and head of the jazz program at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor , for which he was responsible until 2007. He led the Creative Arts Orchestra there , which also performed in New York, released an album and performed with Gregg Bendian , Tim Berne / Michael Formanek and Oliver Lake , as well as the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra . He also held master classes elsewhere, for example at the Eastman School of Music , The New School , the Paris Conservatory , the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Sibelius Academy . In his writings on music theory, he showed himself to be an original thinker who considered both aesthetic and cognitive aspects of making music.

Sarath is also active as a flugelhorn player and composer. He released a few albums under his own name. He composed Rites of Passage for the WDR Big Band Cologne , which premiered in 1998 with soloists Dave Liebman and Michael Brecker . In the same year was the premiere of his composition Brahma, Vishnu, Siva , which was performed and recorded in Brazil the following year. In 2002 he wrote Trends of Time for symphony orchestra and jazz quartet. He also arranged for Dave Liebman. According to Tom Lord , he was involved in eleven jazz recordings between 1986 and 2003, including by Graham Collier . In 2008 he was at Brass Tactics of Michael Jefry Stevens involved. He is also a founding member and chairman of the International Society for Improvised Music .

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  • Music Theory Through Improvisation: A New Approach to Musicianship Training. Routledge: London 2010
  • Improvisation, Creativity, and Consciousness: Jazz as an Integral Template for Music, Education, and Society , SUNY: Albany 2013
  • Olen Gunnlaugson, Ed Sarath, Heesoon Bai, Charles Scott (Eds.) Contemplative Approaches to Learning and Inquiry SUNY: Albany 2014

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  1. ↑ Interview ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sitemaker.umich.edu
  2. ↑ Music at Michigan 21 (1987): 19
  3. ^ The Jazz Discography
personal data
SURNAME Sarath, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sarath, Edward W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist, flugelhorn player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1953