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Edward Green is an award-winning composer and educator. He is included in Who's Who Among America's Teachers, was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist by CIES (Council for International Exchange of Scholars), and is on the faculties of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York and the Manhattan School of Music, where he has been a professor since 1984, teaching courses in composition, jazz history, and world music. Among his numerous awards as a composer was the 1995 Zoltan Kodaly International Composer's Prize, and his Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in the category "Best Classical Contemporary Composition."

From 1974 to 1978, Edward Green had the honor to study with the great philosopher and critic of the arts Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism. Earlier he attended Oberlin College, and his graduate degrees, in both composition and historical musicology, are from New York University. He was awarded a Ph.D. from NYU in 2008, and his thesis was entitled "Chromatic Completion in the Late Vocal Music of Haydn and Mozart—A Technical, Philosophic, and Historical Study."

His music has been performed by orchestras across the United States as well as in several countries overseas—including Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina, and England. And in 2004 he was awarded a prestigious Music Alive! grant from the American Symphony Orchestra League and Meet the Composer. Through this grant he was Composer-in-Residence for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York for their 2004-2005 season.

Dr. Green has been a guest composer and lecturer at Tanglewood, the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the University of Montréal, Baltimore's Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute, the Pontifical Catholic University in Buenos Aires, Ithaca College, Dartmouth University and other important educational institutions here and overseas. In 2003, he gave a Convocation Address at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and in 2004 participated in the First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, held at the University of Graz, Austria. His presentation, co-authored with anthropologist Arnold Perey, was entitled “Aesthetic Realism: A New Foundation for Interdisciplinary Musicology.” The conference was sponsored by the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music.

His compositions include works for chamber ensembles, chorus, and symphony orchestra, as well as solo music for piano, guitar, and other instruments. He is also an active composer for the theatre and for film, and is staff composer for Imagery Films, whose director is the Emmy award-winning filmmaker Ken Kimmelman. Two of their recent films are What Does a Person Deserve?, which received a Silver CINDY award, and was sponsored by the National Coalition for the Homeless, and Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana—based on Eli Siegel’s Nation prize-winning poem. Edward Green is also Composer-in-Residence for the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company.

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Edward Green: Delighting in the Duke

Read "Edward Green: Delighting in the Duke" reviewed by Douglas Groothuis


Duke Ellington's music can be enjoyed on many levels by many people. The simple lover of good music can revel in his more memorable tunes--snap their fingers or dance to “Take the A-Train," “Perdido" or “It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing." Or they may pause reflectively while listening to “Mood Indigo." They might watch video performances and delight in Duke's sly smile, ever-hip demeanor, and way with spoken words. The jazz aficionado, such as myself, ...

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Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Partners with Famed Greenwich Village Jazz Club Fat Cat to Launch New York City All-Star Youth Big Band

Afro Latin Jazz Alliance Partners with Famed Greenwich Village Jazz Club Fat Cat to Launch New York City All-Star Youth Big Band

Source: Two for the Show Media

NEW YORK—The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) announced today its invitation to New York City's finest young musicians to sit under the directorship of Arturo O'Farrill, leader of the GRAMMY Award-winning Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), and be a part of an elite all-city youth big band hosted by the famed Greenwich Village jazz club Fat Cat, called the Fat Afro Latin Jazz Cats. “The best thing about my work is the chance to interact with young musicians, and this ...

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Ted Greene-"Solo Guitar" Art of Life Records AL1011-2 CD Reissue

Ted Greene-"Solo Guitar" Art of Life Records AL1011-2 CD Reissue

Source: All About Jazz

Art of Life Records is proud to announce our latest CD release. Ted Greene: Solo Guitar AL1011-2 Originally released in 1977 on PMP Records and now available on CD for the first time ever! Digitally remastered for compact disc from the original analog master tapes by John Strother at Penguin Recording in Los Angeles, California and supervised by Ted Greene himself. Includes the original album cover artwork and liner notes from both pressings of the original LP release. Ted is ...

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Tom Harrell Live at the Village Vanguard Captures The Excitement Of The Trumpeter/Composer's 2001 Performances At The Fabled Greenwich Village Club

Tom Harrell Live at the Village Vanguard Captures The Excitement Of The Trumpeter/Composer's 2001 Performances At The Fabled Greenwich Village Club

Source: All About Jazz

Harrell’s First Live Recording With His Working Band To Be Released May 7 On RCA/Bluebird

In the wake of being voted Composer of the Year in the 2001 Down Beat Readers Poll, Tom Harrell is now finding the kind of acclaim for his compositional gifts that he has long known as an instrumentalist. His latest recording for RCA/Bluebird, Tom Harrell Live at the Village Vanguard, captures the great moments from his November 2001 engagement at the Greenwich Village club in ...

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