Ted Dunbar
Ted Dunbar ( born January 17, 1937 in Port Arthur (Texas ), † 29 May 1998 in New Brunswick ( New Jersey)) was an American jazz guitarist and composer, and music educator.
Life and work
Ted Dunbar was a trained pharmacist, but has worked since the 1970s, only part-time in his original profession. From a young age he had been interested in jazz and played in the 1950s in several bands guitar and trumpet when he was pharmacy student at Texas Southern University. In 1963 he studied George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Concept - along with David Baker in Indianapolis and then worked with Baker, Red Garland and Billy Harper. Influenced by Wes Montgomery and the modal jazz he moved in 1966 to New York City where he continued his musical experiments. fort, played in theater orchestras, worked as a teacher and in bands of Jimmy Heath and McCoy Tyner. From 1970 to 1973, he also played with the Gil Evans Orchestra ( Svengali ), 1971/72 with Tony Williams' Lifetime, later with Sam Rivers, Richard Davis and Michal Urbaniak. 1972/1937 he was Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University Livingston belonging to the College; later he was u.a teacher by Kevin Eubanks. In 1978 he was involved in the last shots of the Charles Mingus Orchestra ( "Me, Myself and Eye "). At the Montreux Jazz Festival he performed with the Xanadu at All Stars. In addition to his work in the field of fusion and Modern Creative Jazz, most recently with Randy Weston and Hamiet Bluiett (1994 ), he was stylistically in the area of a blues - oriented jazz and was on recordings by Jay Jay Johnson, David Fathead Newman, Gene Ammons, Frank Wess, Frank Foster, Susannah McCorkle and Joe Williams involved. He has written textbooks on jazz harmony and guitar technique.
He died in 1998 of a stroke.
Discography
Albums under his own name
- Opening Remarks (1978, Xanadu Records)
- Jazz Guitarist (1982, Xanadu Records)
- Gentle Time Alone (1992, Steeplechase Records) with Mickey Tucker, Ray Drummond, David Jones
Albums as a sideman
- Richard Davis: Forest Flowers (32 Jazz, 1975)
- Gil Evans: Svengali ( Atlantic Records / ACT, 1976)
- Jay Jay Johnson: Vivian ( Concord, 1992)
- Frank Wess: Dear Mr. Basie ( Concord, 1989)
- Tony Williams Lifetime: Ego ( Verve, 1971)