Bio/Discography
Edward Petersen
Edward Petersen recently retired from his position as Associate Chair of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has been a featured saxophone soloist and arranger with Dee Dee Bridgewater and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO). He has performed at major festivals and concert halls in the United States (Rose Hall-Lincoln Center, Newport Jazz Festival, and many other venues), France (Jazz a'Vienne, L'Olympia), Switzerland (Festival Ete, Jazz Ascona), Finland (Pori Jazz Festival), Norway (Molde Jazz Festival), Hungary (Jazz Veszprem Festival), Canada (Saskatoon Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival), Netherlands (North Sea Jazz Festival), Australia (Sydney Recital Hall, Melbourne Jazz Festival), South Africa (Capetown Jazz Festival), and New Zealand (Wellington Jazz Festival) . He has written many compositions and arrangements for NOJO-including two arrangements on the recently released Sony Music-Okeh CD, Dee Dee's Feathers. He is a featured soloist on NOJO's Grammy Award-winning CD, Book One. He has played with J.J. Johnson, Johnny Griffin, Clifford Jordan, Wilbur Campbell, Jay McShann, Lionel Hampton, Henry Butler, Herlin Riley, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Ira Sullivan, Eddie Harris, David Liebman, Ellis Marsalis, Ernie Watts and many others. He has recorded with Kurt Elling, Dr. John, Ron Carter, Cedar Walton, Laurence Hobgood, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Willie Pickens, Von Freeman, Brian Seeger, Fareed Haque, Jason Marsalis, Ramsey Lewis, Frank Mantooth, Johnny Adams, Ruth Brown, Chet Baker, and many others. His playing and musical compositions are featured on numerous other recordings, including three Grammy- nominated Blue Note CD's by Kurt Elling, Close Your Eyes, The Messenger, and Live in Chicago and several releases under his own name on the Delmark label, Upward Spiral, The Haint, and Von and Ed, which also features the legendary Chicago saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master, Von Freeman. He has received numerous commissions from the New Orleans Jazz Institute for original compositions and for the creation of jazz adaptations and arrangements of other music, ranging from opera to pop. He received a Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Music Performance and has received numerous Special Composers' Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
Discography
Adams, Johnny: One Foot in the Blues. Rounder CD2144
Allen, Jackie: Never Let Me Go. Lake Shore Jazz LSJCD 005
Atwood, Eden: Today. Southport SSD 0015
Baker, Chet: Chet in Chicago. Enja 9524
Bennett, Don: Sleeping Giant. Southport SSD 0012
Big Tall Wish: Leverage
Bridgewater, Dee Dee with Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Dee Dee’s Feathers. Okeh/Sony
Brown, Ruth: R+B=Ruth Brown. Bullseye Blues CD BB 9583
Cavanaugh, Dan: Pulse. OA2 Records OA2 22048
de Clouet, Theryl: The Houseman Cometh. Bullseye 11661-9637-2 (as arranger and performer)
Doctor John: Ske-Dat-De-Dat...The Spirit Of Satch. Concord Records
Elling, Kurt: Live In Chicago. Blue Note 7243 5 22211 2 7
Elling, Kurt: The Messenger. Blue Note 52727
Elling, Kurt: Close Your Eyes. Blue Note 30645
Freeman, Von and Petersen, Ed: Von and Ed. Delmark DE-508
Fricano, Guy: The New York Sessions. A.F.P. GF 81242 with Ron Carter and Cedar Walton
Goode, Brad: The Shock of the New. Delmark DS 440
Gray, Larry: Solo and Quartet. Premonition 001
Griffin, Francine: The Song Bird. Delmark DE 512
Haque, Fareed: Voices Rising. Pangaea 42156
Hobgood, Laurence: Left to My Own Devices. Naim CD 049 (as composer)
Jazz Members Big Band: Diggin' In. Sea Breeze SB 2049
Jazz Members Big Band: May Day. Sea Breeze SB 2014
Jazz Members Big Band: Live at Fitzgerald's. Sea Breeze SB 2028
Luchowski, Larry: Shadowplay. Lakeshore Jazz LSJCD 006
Mantooth, Frank: Dangerous Precedent. Sea Breeze SB 2046 with Ramsey Lewis
Mantooth, Frank: Persevere. Optimism OPCD 3229 with Clark Terry
Mantooth, Frank: Suite Tooth. Optimism OPCD 3217 with Louis Bellson, Art Farmer and Bobby Shew
Manuel, Phillip: Swingin’ In the Holidays. Glad-Man 001
Moore, Robert: Serve You, Ma=am. RomoMusic 003
Morrissey, Bill: Songs of Mississippi John Hurt. Philo 1216
New Orleans CAC Jazz Orchestra: Mood Indigo. Rounder CD2145
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Book One. (no number available)
New Orleans Jazz Orchestra: Live at Newport. Basin Street Records BSR 0409
Pemberton, Roger: Chicago Jazz. Central Park Jazz (no number available)
Petersen, Edward: Upward Spiral. Delmark DE 445
Petersen, Edward: The Mission. Roving Bovine Records 003
Petersen, Edward: The Haint. Delmark DE 474
Petersen, Edward: Jazz South. Southern Arts Federation SAF 17
Petersen, Edward, Seeger, Brian, and Marsalis, Jason: Finger to the Universe. Lakefront Digital Records LFD-2-002
Shellene, June: The Lost Art of Love. Waterhole Music 11112-8
Simon, Fred: Usually Always. Windham Hill WH 1071
Thomas, Irma: Sing It!. Rounder CD2152
Thrascher: A Sound Thrasching. MP3.com DAM CD 53792
Thrascher: Another Sound Thrasching. (self-released)
Thrascher: Axes of Evil. (self-released)
Thrascher: Music for No Occasion. (self-released)
Various Artists: Jazz: the Language of New Orleans Volume 2. Louisiana Red Hot Records 9102
Various Artists: Keilwerth Saxophone Sampler. (promotional disc)
Van Duyne, Cindy: Coming Home (no number available)
Wiest,Steve: Excalibur. Arabesque Recordings AJO 180
Yonely, Jo Belle: Sessions with Friends. Self-produced..available at http://www.great‑music.net/jobelle.html
Wertico, Paul: The Yin and the Yout. VeraBra 2150 2 (As composer)