Results for "Edward Partyka"

Musician

Edward Partyka

Born: August 23, 1967

Ed Partyka is an arranger, composer, conductor and educator specializing in large ensemble jazz music. Originally from Chicago, Illinois, he earned a BA degree from Northern Illinois University before moving to Germany in 1990. He completed a master's degree in jazz trombone at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, where he was also a member of the G.E.M.A. Jazz Composers Workshop under the direction of Bob Brookmeyer.

He was recipient of the 2000 “A.S.C.A.P. / I.A.J.E. Commission Honouring the Centenary of Louis Armstrong”. He was 1st prize-winner of the 1998 “NDR Musikpreis” (Hamburg), 1st prize winner of the Jazz Composers Alliance 1998 Julius Hemphill Composition Awards (Boston) and finalist in the 1996 HR Emerging Composers Competition (Frankfurt).

News: Education

International Association Of Schools Of Jazz (IASJ) Announces New Executive Director: Ed Partyka

August 4, 2024

The International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ed Partyka as its new Executive Director, effective January 1, 2025. A renowned arranger, composer, conductor and educator, Partyka brings a wealth of experience and a deep commitment to the core values of the organization. Initiated 35 years ago by renowned ...

Album

Hold Your Fire

By Edward Partyka

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hold Your Fire; I'm Not Runnung Away; Isabelle; I Told Jesus; Dead Man.

Video

Isabelle

Featuring the music of Edward Partyka
Duration: 8:09
February 20, 2023

Ed Partyka and Julia Oschewsky make music that is original and unique. To wit: Is there another vocalist who writes deep, probing, singable songs about life and love arranged for a thoroughly modern, 18-piece jazz ensemble with a beefed low end of tuba, bass trombone, baritone saxophone and contrabass clarinet? I don’t think so. (And if there is, will you let us know?)

Album

Last Dance

By Edward Partyka

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: G.G.'s Last Dance; Para Nada; Dienda; Do As I Say (Not As I Do).

News: Recording

UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra

February 1, 2022

Jazz orchestras in America have dwindled to a precious few. Once a dominant jazz aggregation from the 1920s into the early 1970s, the big band tradition is now largely a museum piece relegated to repertory institutions on the receiving end of sizable donor support. Or they are in the entertainment divisions of the four branches of ...

Album

In The Tradition

By Edward Partyka

Label: Neuklang Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Charlie Chan Photographs Sophisticated Lady Trouble & Woe The Great City 3 O'Clock Blues

Album

Kopfkino

By Edward Partyka

Label: Mons Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: The Summer Of My Discontent (Summer in my Disco Tent) Out Of This World Fee Fi Fo Fum It's The Peace That Deafens One Two Three Ten Ataraxia

Album

Hits!*, Vol. 1

By Edward Partyka

Label: Mons Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: That 80’s Opener; Vertical Convertible; The Clouds That Lead the Silence; Roads; Save Your Love for Me; Blue Skies; Chelsea Bridge; Hair of the Dog; Na Palma da Mao; Undiscovered First.

Article: Album Review

Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Hits!*, Vol. 1

by Jack Bowers
May 31, 2014

There's actually an asterisk after the title of the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra's latest album, Hits! Vol. 1 In small print, at the bottom left-hand side of the jacket, are the words “except track 8." As Partyka explains in the liner notes, much of the album is comprised of “a cross section of the music that ...