Eddie Daniels

Eddie Daniels ( * October 19, 1941 in New York City ) is an American clarinetist, who made a name for himself both as a jazz musician and as interpreter of classical music works.

Life and work

Daniels began his career as a jazz musician with participation in the Newport Jazz Festival as a saxophonist in Marshall Brown's International Youth Band. He then attended the Juilliard School of Music where he studied clarinet, and was at the foundation of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1966 for its first members. In the same year he took part in the organized by Friedrich Gulda International Competition for Modern Jazz in Vienna, where he was awarded first prize in the saxophone.

Until the early 1970s, he played an even recordings with Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, Don Patterson and duets with Bucky Pizzarelli. He focused increasingly on the clarinet and received the Downbeat Magazine 's International Critics New Star Award, and several Grammy Awards and Grammy nominations. Also, as an interpreter of classic works, he received recognition. Leonard Bernstein said of him: Eddie Daniels Combines elegance and virtuosity in a way did makes me remember Arthur Rubenstein. He is a thoroughly well-bred demon. 1972 and 1976 he was a member of The George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band. Daniels played a series of albums as a bandleader with his own band. Since the early 1990s, he came back increasingly on as a saxophonist. In 1994 it came to the cooperation with the clarinetist Sabine Meyer and the arranger / composer Torrie Zito ( " Blues for Sabine" ).

The Switzerland -born composer and jazz saxophonist Daniel Schnyder composed for Eddie Daniels 2009 on behalf of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, a Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra called MATRIX 21, which premiered in January 2010 under the baton of Christian Zacharias; Schnyder has dedicated it Daniels.

Discography

Jazz

• First Prize with Richard Davis, Mel Lewis, Sir Roland Hanna, 1966
• A Flower for All Seasons
• This is New
• Morning Thunder
• Street Wind
• Brief Encounter with Rick Laird, Andy LaVerne, Billy Mintz, 1977
• Breakthrough
• To Bird With Love
• Memos From Paradise
• Blackwood with Steve Khan, Rob Mounsey, Dave Grusin, Sammy Figueroa, Jeff Mironov, Dave Weckl, 1989
• Nepenthe with John Patitucci, Sammy Figueroa, Chuck Loeb, Adam Nussbaum, Dave Weckl, 1989
• Benny Rides Again with Gary Burton, Peter Erskine, Marc Johnson, Marcus Johnson, Mulgrew Miller, 1992
• Under the Influence with Peter Erskine, Michael Formanek, Alan Pasqua, 1993
• Real Time with Chuck Loeb, Ned man, Adam Nussbaum, 1994
• The Five Seasons, jazz adaptation of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi with Alan Broadbent, Peter Erskine, Dave Carpenter and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 1995
• Beautiful Love
• Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet with the hr-Bigband (Tony Lakatos, Kurt Bong, Thomas Heidepriem, Wilson de Oliveira, Wolfgang Haffner, Peter Feil, Torolf Mølgaard, John Oslawski, Martin Auer, Harry Petersen, Peter Reiter, Heinz -Dieter Sauer Born, Werner Vetterer ), 2000
• Crossing the Line with Larry Combs, Gary Novak, Larry Novak, Brad Opland and Rami Solomonov String Quartet, 2004
• Mean What You Say with Hank Jones, Kenny Washington, Richard Anthony Davis, 2005