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Mr. Daniel began studying trumpet in elementary school. He began his professional career playing local gigs with his childhood friend, the legendary guitarist, Sonny Sharrock. Mr. Daniel briefly attended Berklee School of music and Southern Illinois University before a tour of duty will U.S. Army Bands. After his discharge from the Army, Mr. Daniel attended Central State College, in Ohio, on a full music scholarship where he met and studied with Dr. Ken Makanda McIntyre. After a year, Mr. Daniel returned to NYC and eventually received a bachelor of music degree in theory and composition from the City College of New York. Mr. Daniel had begun his recording career while studying in Ohio. He returned briefly to New York to record Sonny Sharrock's first album “Black Woman”. His second recording was with a band he co-lead (Brute Force) with his brother, Richard Daniel. The recording was entitled “Brute Force” on the Embryo label, produced by Herbie Mann. Since then, Mr. Daniel has participated in over thirty published recordings with such great artist as: Archie Shepp, Dewey Redman, Andrew Cyrille, Sam Rivers, Billy Bang and Henry Threadgill. Mr. Daniel has held workshops at Amherst College, Bennington College, Williams College and the University of Hosei in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Daniel has also conducted a seminar in Madrid, Spain as well as work in his community conducting summer music workshops for high and college age students. Mr. Daniel has produced three albums under his own name, which are entitled “The Ted Daniel Sextet” on Ujamaa records, “Tapestry” on Sun records and “In The Beginning” on Altura recordings. This recording features a twelve-piece ensemble featuring such artist as Oliver Lake, Arthur Blythe, Charles Tyler and David Murray.

Eventually this ensemble evolved into a larger group entitled “Energy”. Mr. Daniel has been the recipient of a NEA compositional grant and awarded Talent Deserving Wider recognition from Downbeat Magazine. Presently, Mr. Daniel is writing and performing with his new group, the International Brass and Membrane Corporation (IBMC). This trio was conceived as a flexible and expandable creative music performance group, which utilizes instruments from the brass and membrane instrument families. Also, Mr. Daniel has made several recordings with Charles Compo’s THE PHIBES band. Recently, May 20, 2008, PORTER RECORDS has reissued Ted’s Tapestry album with a bonus track from the original performance of 1974 recorded at Ornette Coleman's Artist House. Ted has also formed a duo with Michael Marcus on Bb clarinet and Ted on Trumpet and assorted brass.

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Album Review

Ted Daniel's Energy Module: Innerconnection

Read "Innerconnection" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Innerconnection è l'ennesimo capitolo della preziosa opera di recupero da parte della label lituana No Business nei confronti di artisti di valore non sempre adeguatamente riconosciuti o protagonisti di lavori comparsi come meteore nel panorama discografico dell'epoca. È il caso di questa formazione di alto profilo assemblata dal trombettista Ted Daniel, e messa su vinile nell'autunno 1975, durante le uniche due esibizioni live della sua brevissima storia. Siamo in piena loft-generation -il disco è stato registrato a ...

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Ted Daniel's Energy Module: Innerconnection

Read "Innerconnection" reviewed by John Sharpe


Although 72-year old trumpeter Ted Daniel remains active on the scene -courtesy of his Duology partnership with clarinetist Michael Marcus, and his own International Brass and Membrane Corps -a significant part of his recent output has focused on archival recordings. As such, the first time release of the 2 CD Innerconnection from fall 1975 neatly fits with a succession of reissues comprising 1970's The Ted Daniel Sextet (Ujamaa Records, 2006), 1974's Tapestry (Porter Records, 2008) and 1975's The Loft Years ...

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Multiple Reviews

Ted Daniel: Tapestry and The Loft Years

Read "Ted Daniel: Tapestry and The Loft Years" reviewed by John Sharpe


Ted Daniel Tapestry Porter Records 2008 Ted Daniel The Loft Years Volume 1 Ujamaa 2009

Though sometimes proposed as a period when little new was happening in jazz, the '70s saw the blossoming of one of the most fertile grassroots periods in the music's history with the Loft Jazz movement. By ...

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Ted Daniel: Brass Tapestry

Read "Ted Daniel: Brass Tapestry" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Trumpeter Ted Daniel was born in Ossining, New York on June 4, 1943. Encouraged early on by his father and brother, Daniel played trumpet from age nine and throughout high school played in bands with his brother and the guitarist Warren “Sonny" Sharrock, a neighborhood pal. Stints at Berklee and SIU provided some context, but the university of the Lower East Side jazz scene provided the most fruit--where he played with Sharrock, Byard Lancaster, Dave Burrell, Archie Shepp and others.

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Ted Daniel: Ted Daniel Sextet

Read "Ted Daniel Sextet" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Fragile fragments and brittle smears make up much of the trumpet's language in creative music, and the 1970s saw an influx of important voices on the instrument, expanding on the innovations of their reed-playing brethren. Among them were Earl Cross, Raphe Malik, Eddie Gale, Butch Morris and Ted Daniel, a childhood friend of Sonny Sharrock who made his first appearance on the guitarist's Vortex LP Black Woman (specifically, the staggering “Portrait of Linda in Three Colors, All Black ).

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Festival

It's Trumpet Time with the Festival of New Trumpet at Vision Festival 16

It's Trumpet Time with the Festival of New Trumpet at Vision Festival 16

Source: Chris Rich

Festival of New Trumpet makes its contribution to Vision Festival 16 and offers a detailed interview with Ted Daniel including this summary below. FONT: What is your relationship to King Oliver's playing? TD: King Oliver's improvisations were blues based, rhythmically intricate and his sound, which he constantly worked on, was highly personal and original. He was not conservatory- trained and his style and technique were a response of his own musical vision and influenced by his environment. I am also ...

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Radio

Ted Daniel Talks King Oliver at WKCR

Ted Daniel Talks King Oliver at WKCR

Source: Chris Rich

Tune in for Ted Daniel's musical tribute to the renowned jazz cornetist on Columbia University's jazz radio program on the Columbia University jazz radio program with Ben Young, Monday evening June 6th from 6:00-9:00pm on WKCR 89.9 FM. During the program, Daniel will discuss the life and times of Joseph “King" Oliver his involvement in King Oliver's music, and IBMC's performance of King Oliver material in concert on June 7th. The following evening (June 7th, 2011) Ted Daniel's International Brass ...

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Performance / Tour

"Duology" -Michael Marcus-Ted Daniel Rare N.Y.C. Appearance!

"Duology" -Michael Marcus-Ted Daniel Rare N.Y.C. Appearance!

Source: All About Jazz


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Trumpeter Ted Daniel Interviewed at AAJ

Trumpeter Ted Daniel Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

Trumpeter Ted Daniel was born in Ossining, New York on June 4, 1943. Encouraged early on by his father and brother, Daniel played trumpet from age nine and throughout high school played in bands with his brother and the guitarist Warren “Sonny" Sharrock, a neighborhood pal. Stints at Berklee and SIU provided some context, but the university of the Lower East Side jazz scene provided the most fruit--where he played with Sharrock, Byard Lancaster, Dave Burrell, Archie Shepp and others. ...

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Technology

Ted Daniel on Myspace

Ted Daniel on Myspace

Source: All About Jazz


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Performance / Tour

"DUOLOGY" - Michael Marcus & Ted Daniel - Live in NYC, Nov. 19th, 2006

"DUOLOGY" - Michael Marcus & Ted Daniel - Live in NYC,  Nov. 19th, 2006

Source: All About Jazz


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Performance / Tour

Michael Marcus Qt W/Ted Daniel (Tonight) The Songwriter's Beat / Gnu Vox Vocal Series & More at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Michael Marcus Qt W/Ted Daniel (Tonight) The Songwriter's Beat  / Gnu Vox Vocal Series & More at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz

September 19, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Week at Cornelia Street Cafe Sept. 19 thg Sept. 25 Mon ...

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Performance / Tour

Vision Club Sat., Feb.12th Joseph Jarman / Robert Garcia 7:30pm + Ted Daniel 9pm

Vision Club Sat., Feb.12th Joseph Jarman / Robert Garcia 7:30pm  + Ted Daniel 9pm

Source: All About Jazz

A R T S F O R A R T 508 East 6th Street #3, NYC 10009 February 10, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: The Vision Festival / www.visionfestival.org PRESS Contact: Jim Eigo [email protected] / 845.986.1677 Saturday, February 12, 2005 THE VISION CLUB presents 7:30pm Joseph Jarman / Robert Garcia 9pm Ted Daniel's International Brass and Membrane Corporation At Clemente Soto Velez - LES Gallery 107 Suffolk Street at Rivington 7:30Joseph Jarman & Robert Garcia Duo Joseph Jarman – winds & ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Innerconnection

NoBusiness Records
2015

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Ted Daniel Sextet

Ujam Records
2006

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In The Beginning

Summit Records
1997

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