Ted Rosenthal

Ted Rosenthal ( born 1959 ) is an American jazz pianist and composer.

Life and work

Rosenthal grew up in Great Neck on Long Iceland. He took piano lessons from jazz pianist Tony Aless, in high school briefly with Jaki Byard and Lennie Tristano and attended workshops, among others, Woody Shaw and Billy Taylor. He studied classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music. In 1988, he won the second Thelonious Monk Competition in piano and published in 1990 his first album, New Tunes, New Traditions with own compositions and arrangements of compositions by Thelonious Monk ( with Ron Carter, Billy Higgins, Tom Harrell ). 1992 to 1995 he toured with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, with whom he recorded three albums. After the death of Mulligan he was musical director of the Gerry Mulligan All Star Tribute Band, played in the Bob Brookmeyer, Lee Konitz, Randy Brecker and the 1998 Grammy-nominated CD Thank you Gerry! brought out.

He accompanied many years Helen Merrill - his album My Funny Valentine ( Venus Records, 2008) George Mraz and Al Foster is a tribute to Merrill, also accompanied other singers such as Mark Murphy, Ann Hampton Callaway and was a sideman with Art Farmer, Jon Faddis, Phil Woods, Wycliffe Gordon and Jay Leonhart. With Bob Brookmeyer he took the duo on the album One night in Vermont (Planet Arts 2004). In other albums he worked on jazz standards, musicals ( The King and I, Venus Records in 2006, with George Mraz, Lewis Nash, drums) and classical music ( Impromptu, 2010 playscape, with Noriko Ueda, bass, Quincy Davis drums). In all, he published (until 2012 ), about a dozen albums, including solo albums (The 3 B's, Ted Rosenthal Live at Maybeck Hall ).

Rosenthal has performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Wynton Marsalis, with the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. In 2003 he organized with George Wein piano starts in on the JVC Jazz Festival in New York. He also plays classical music with the Boston Pops and classical symphony orchestras, where he eg supplemented in Gershwin concerts improvisations.

Among other things, he composed the Piano Concerto Survivor ( with improvised parts ) and the dance music Uptown, which was performed in 2009 by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

He also teaches in jazz clinics and at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music and the New School University.