Marty Ehrlich

Martin Lewis " Marty " Ehrlich ( born May 31, 1955 in St. Paul / Minnesota) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist.

Life and work

Ehrlich grew up in St. Louis, where he was under the influence of the Black Artists Group and the album Under The Sun of the Human Arts Ensemble participated. From 1973 to 1977 he studied at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and Others with George Russell, Jaki Byard, Joe Maneri and Gunther Schuller.

In 1978 he went to New York City, where he led three bands: the The Marty Ehrlich Quartet, which The Traveler 's Tales Group and the Dark Woods Ensemble. He also works in a duo with pianist Myra Melford and Trio in C / D / E with Andrew Cyrille and Mark Dresser. He played also duet recordings with Muhal Richard Abrams, Mike Nock, Anthony Cox and John Lindberg. On more than one hundred CDs he continues as a sideman for musicians like Ray Anderson, Fontella Bass, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Jaki Byard, John Carter, Anthony Davis, Jack DeJohnette, James Emery, Peter Erskine, George Gruntz, Chico Hamilton, Julius Hemphill to hear Andrew Hill ( Dusk, 1999), Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Roscoe Mitchell, James Newton, Bobby Previte, Randy Sandke, Wadada Leo Smith or John Zorn.

As a composer, Ehrlich worked, inter alia, for the New York Composer's Orchestra, the Boston Jazz Composer's Alliance, the Lydian String Quartet, Rova Saxophone Quartet, the Kitchen House Blend Orchestra, the New York String Trio and the pianist Ursula Oppens. In 1995 he was Composer in Residence at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston, in 2000 Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at Harvard University.

Discography

  • The Welcome to Anthony Cox, Pheeroan akLaff, 1984
  • Pliant Pliant with Stan Strickland, Anthony Cox, Bobby Previte, 1996
  • Side by Side with Frank Lacy, Wayne Horvitz, Anthony Cox, Andrew Cyrille, 1991
  • Can You Hear a Motion? Stan Strickland, Michael Formanek, Bobby Previte, 1994
  • New York Child with Stan Strickland, Michael Cain, Michael Formanek, Bill Stewart, 1996
  • Malinke 's Dance with Tony Malaby, Jerome Harris, Bobby Previte, 2000, Omnitone
  • Song with Uri Caine, Michael Formanek, Billy Drummond, Ray Anderson, 2001
  • Line on Love with Craig Taborn, Michael Formanek, Billy Drummond, 2003
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