Edward Petersen

Associate Professor of Music; Jazz Saxophone

  Contact Information:
    E-mail: epeterse@uno.edu
    Office Number: (504)280-7493

Edward Petersen is the Associate Chair of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at the University of New Orleans. He teaches Applied Saxophone, Jazz Improvisation and directs the University of New Orleans Louis Armstrong Quintet. He has recently performed with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, the Clearwater Jazz Festival and at Lincoln Center. He has played with J.J. Johnson, Johnny Griffin, Clifford, Jordan, Wilbur Campbell, Jay McShann, Lionel Hampton, Henry Butler, Benn Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Ira Sullivan, Eddie Harris, David Liebman, Ellis Marsalis, Ernie Watts and many others. He has recorded with Kurt Elling, 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, and Ruth Brown. 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 i n Chicago and several releases under his own name on the Delmark label, Upward Spiral, The Haint, and Von and Ed, which also features the legendaryChicago saxophonists, Von Freeman. He produced, edited, mastered, and performed on a recent CD featuring Jason Marsalis and Brian Seeger entitled, Finger to the Universe (Lakefront Digital Records). He also co-produced, edited, mastered, and performed onthree CDs by the Thrascher Saxophone Quartet, A Sound Thrasching, Another Sound Thrasching, and Axes of Evil. He alsocomposed and arranged much of the music for these dics and for a new CD that is scheduled for release in 2006.

Mr. Petersen is an Artist/Clinician for Boosey & Hawkes/Julius Keilwerth Saxophones. He has recently conducted workshops and performances at the University of Illinois, Univeristy of New Mexico, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Texas Wesleyan University, Roosevelt University, Prairie State College, the Rotterdam Conservatory, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Collin County Community College, Southwest Missouri State University, the Texas Music Educators Association convention, The Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp (New Orleans), and the Houston Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Music Performance in 2002 and has recieved Special Composer's Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) seven times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, and2005). Visit my site: http://www.jazz-ed.net