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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 UNO Louis Armstrong Quintet. He has recently performed with the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, The Clearwater Jazz Festival, The Kimmell Center, Lincoln Center, and at many other venues. 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, Ron Carter, Cedar Walton, Laurence Hobgood, Clark Terry, Art Farmer, Willie Pickens, Von Freeman, Brian Seeger, Fareed Haque, Jason Marsalis, Ramsey Lewis, Frank Mantooth, Steve Wiest, Johnny Adams, Ruth Brown, THRASCHER, 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, Von Freeman.

Mr. Petersen is an Artist/Clinician for Boosey & Hawkes/Julius Keilwerth Saxophones. He has recently conducted workshops and performances at the University of Illinois, University of New Mexico, University of Texas at Arlington, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, The Arizona Jazz Academy, Texas Wesleyan University, Roosevelt University, Prairie State College, the Rotterdam Conservatory, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Collin County Community College, Missouri State University, Penn Stae University, the Texas Music Educators Association convention, The Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp (New Orleans), and the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He received a Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship in Music Performance in 2002 and has received Special Composer’s Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) eleven times (1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007).

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

Bennett, Don: Sleeping Giant. Southport SSD 0012

Brown, Ruth: R+B=Ruth Brown. Bullseye Blues CD BB 9583

de Clouet, Theryl: The Houseman Cometh. Bullseye 11661-9637-2 (as arranger and performer)

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)

Hobgood, Laurence: Crazy World . Naim CD 084 (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

Pemberton, Roger: Chicago Jazz. Central Park Jazz (no number available)

Petersen, Edward: Upward Spiral. Delmark DE 445

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)

Various Artists: Jazz: the Language of New Orleans Volume 2. Louisiana Red Hot Records 9102

Various Artists: Keilwerth Saxophone Sampler. (promotional disc)

Wertico, Paul: The Yin and the Yout. VeraBra 2150 2 (As composer)

Wiest, Steve: Excalibur . Arabesque AJ0180

Yonely, Jo Belle: Sessions with Friends. Self-produced