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Ted Pease

Ted Pease, jazz composer, producer, teacher, author, and performer spent 40 years on the faculty at Berklee College of Music.

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Ted Pease, winner of two grants in jazz composition from the National Endowment of the Arts, designed the original Bachelor of Music major in jazz composition at Berklee in 1980. He is the author of Jazz Composition: Theory and Practice and co-author with Ken Pullig of Modern Jazz Voicings, both published by Berklee Press. Ted's big band compositions include “Cornerstone,” recorded by the Buddy Rich big band. His most recent compositions can be heard on the soon to be released CD “Transitions” recorded by the New World Jazz Composers Octet.

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