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Edwin G. Schuller (b. Jan. 11, 1955) is an American jazz bassist and composer.
Schuller was born in New York City ; his father is Gunther Schuller and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller . Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child and switched to bass at age 15; that same year he had his first professional appearances with Ricky Ford . He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music . Schuller has played with Lee Konitz , Joe Lovano , Ted Curson , Dave Liebman , Jimmy Knepper , Clark Terry , Ran Blake , Paul McCandless , Billy Hart , Mat Maneri , Marty Ehrlich , and Roland Hanna , and has toured with Lovano, Paul Motian , Tim Berne , Jim Pepper , Pat Martino , Mal Waldron , Uli Lenz , Karl Berger , Gerry Hemingway , Marty Cook , Nicolas Simian , Perry Robinson , Barry Miles (musician) , Terry Silverlight , Mingus Epitaph , and Jaki Byard . He has played on over 60 recordings and been a member of numerous collective ensembles.
Schuller has taught at the Newark Academy and at Berklee College of Music , and was the head of the jazz department at Schweitzer Institute of Music in Idaho from 1988.
Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz . Oxford, 1999, pp. 587-88.
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