Ted Dunbar
Ted Dunbar (* 17th January 1937 in Port Arthur (Texas) ; † 29. May 1998 in New Brunswick (New Jersey) ) was an American jazz - guitarist and composer, and music educator.
Live and act
Ted Dunbar was a trained pharmacist , but has only worked part-time in his original profession since the 1970s. He had been interested in jazz from a young age and played guitar and trumpet in various bands in the 1950s when he was a pharmacy student at Texas Southern University . In 1963 he studied George Russell's Lydian chromatic concept with David Baker in Indianapolis and then worked with Baker, Red Garland and Billy Harper . Influenced by Wes Montgomery and modal jazz , he moved to New York City in 1966 , where he continued his musical experiments, played in theater orchestras, worked as a teacher and in bands with Jimmy Heath and McCoy Tyner . From 1970 to 1973 he also played with the Gil Evans Orchestra ( Svengali ), 1971/72 with Tony Williams ' Lifetime , later with Sam Rivers , Richard Davis and Michal Urbaniak .
1972/1973 he was assistant professor for jazz studies at the Rutgers University belonging Livingston College ; later he was u. a. Teacher of Kevin Eubanks . In 1978 he was involved in the last recordings of the Charles Mingus Orchestra ("Me, Myself and Eye"). He performed with the Xanadu All Stars at the Montreux Jazz Festival . In addition to his work in the field of fusion and modern creative jazz, most recently with Randy Weston and Hamiet Bluiett (1994), he also worked stylistically in the field of blues-oriented jazz and was on recordings by Jay Jay Johnson , David Fathead Newman , Gene Ammons , Frank Wess , Frank Foster , Susannah McCorkle and Joe Williams . He wrote textbooks on jazz harmonic and guitar technique.
He died of a stroke in 1998.
Discography
Albums under your own name
- Opening Remarks (1978, Xanadu Records )
- Jazz Guitarist (1982, Xanadu Records)
- Gentle Time Alone (1992, SteepleChase Records) with Mickey Tucker , Ray Drummond , David Jones
Albums as a sideman
- Richard Davis: Forest Flowers (32 Jazz, 1975)
- Gil Evans: Svengali (Atlantic Records / ACT, 1976)
- Jay Jay Johnson: Vivian (Concord, 1992)
- Frank Wess: Dear Mr. Basie (Concord, 1989)
- Tony Williams Lifetime: Ego (Verve, 1971)
literature
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Jazz: The Rough Guide. ISBN 1-85828-528-3 .
Web links
- Works by and about Ted Dunbar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Discography at jazzdiscography.com
- Ted Dunbar Is Dead; Jazz Guitarist, 61 , obituary, New York Times , June 6, 1998
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Cook, Morton, p. 486.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunbar, Ted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Port Arthur, Texas , USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1998 |
| Place of death | New Brunswick (New Jersey) |