Ted Rosenthal
Ted Rosenthal (* 1959 ) is an American jazz pianist and composer .
Live and act
Rosenthal grew up in Great Neck on Long Island . He took piano lessons from jazz pianist Tony Aless , briefly in high school with Lennie Tristano and Jaki Byard and attended workshops by Woody Shaw and Billy Taylor, among others . He studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music . In 1988 he won the second Thelonious Monk competition in piano and in 1990 released his first album New Tunes, New Traditions, with his own compositions and arrangements of compositions by Thelonious Monk (with Ron Carter , Billy Higgins , Tom Harrell ). From 1992 to 1995 he toured with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with whom he also recorded three albums. After Mulligan's death, he became musical director of the Gerry Mulligan All Star Tribute Band , which featured Bob Brookmeyer , Lee Konitz , Randy Brecker and the 1998 Grammy- nominated CD Thank you Gerry! brought out.
He accompanied Helen Merrill for many years - his album My Funny Valentine (Venus Records 2008) with George Mraz and Al Foster is a tribute to Merrill, accompanied other singers such as Mark Murphy , Ann Hampton Callaway and was a sideman with Art Farmer , Jon Faddis , Phil Woods , Wycliffe Gordon and Jay Leonhart . With Bob Brookmeyer he recorded the album One night in Vermont (Planet Arts 2004) as a duo . On other albums he worked on jazz standards , musicals ( The King and I , Venus Records 2006, with George Mraz, Lewis Nash , drums) and classical music ( Impromptu , 2010 with Playscape, with Noriko Ueda , bass, Quincy Davis drums). In total, he released around a dozen albums (by 2012), including solo albums ( The 3 B's, Ted Rosenthal Live at Maybeck Hall ).
Rosenthal has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra by Wynton Marsalis , with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In 2003 he organized Piano Starts In with George Wein at the JVC Jazz Festival in New York. He also plays classical music with the Boston Pops and classical symphony orchestras. B. in Gershwin concerts added improvisations.
Among other things, he composed the piano concerto Survivor (with improvised parts) and the dance music Uptown , which was performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 2009 .
He also teaches in jazz clinics and at the Juilliard School , the Manhattan School of Music and the New School University .
Web links
- Web presence
- Ted Rosenthal at Allmusic (English)
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| SURNAME | Rosenthal, Ted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1959 |