Ed Schuller

Russ Lossing: As It Grows

by Ty Cumbie
October 14, 2004

Spacious, articulate, and artfully composed, the material heard on Russ Lossing's As It Grows --apparently some of it improvised and some composed--is consistently musical and satisfyingly rangy. Although there's a persistent strain of finespun moodiness that isn't for seekers of the heavy groove, there's enough heart-stopping beauty on this disc to make you forget, momentarily, that Keith Jarrett ever existed. This is the music Cecil Taylor might've made if he cared about conventional notions of musical pleasureability. All comparisons aside, ...

Ed Schuller: Ong Song (Music for Acoustic Bass)

by Mark F. Turner
April 12, 2002

The rap chant “Give it up for the bass players some!" is appropriately echoed on the final selection on bassist Ed Schller’s solo recording “Ong Song". The funky selection ends with a tribute to all bass players with a Bassist’s roll call, which includes the likes of Charles Mingus, Dave Holland, Charlie Hayden, and Stanley Clarke. Ong Song is a complete solo recording for the acoustic bass which was conceived over four years to express and highlight the instrument in ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2017

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2016

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today!

The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2015

All About Jazz is celebrating Gunther Schuller's birthday today! The composer Gunther Schuller is, famously, a man of many musical pursuits. He began his professional life as a horn player in both the jazz and classical worlds, working as readily with Miles Davis and Gil Evans as with Toscanini; he was principal horn of the Cincinnati Symphony from age sixteen and later of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra until 1959. In the 1950s he began a conducting career focusing largely on ...
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New England Conservatory Remembers Gunther Schuller

Source: Michael Ricci
June 23, 2015

From the Ground Up and Into the Future... In Memoriam Boston, MA – Gunther Schuller's family, friends, contemporaries, faculty, and students are in mourning over the news of his death June 21, but the trailblazing energy surrounding this man is so great, even his in memoriam feels like a chance for new understandings and transformation. As New England Conservatory President, Gunther Schuller steered NEC through one of the most turbulent and formative decades of American and Conservatory history, beginning with ...
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Gunther Schuller (1925-2015)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
June 23, 2015

Gunther Schuller, a classically trained French hornist, composer and conductor whose passion for jazz motivated him to record with jazz musicians and fuse classical music and jazz into what he would become known as the Third Stream, died Sunday in Boston. He was 89. I interviewed Gunther in 2010 on his jazz experiences. Here are all four parts of that interview combined... JazzWax: Where exactly did you grow up? Gunther Schuller: As a young child, I spent 4½ years in ...
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