Edwin Gunther Schuller (January 11, 1955) is an American

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bassist and composer. His father is

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, a composer, horn player, and music professor, and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller.

Career

A native of New York City, Schuller learned clarinet and guitar as a child. He switched to double bass at age 15, and the same year he had his first professional appearances with Ricky Ford. He studied at the

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. Schuller has played with

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, Ted Curson,

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, Abbey Rader, Jimmy Knepper,

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, Ran Blake, Paul McCandless,

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, Marty Ehrlich, and Roland Hanna, and has toured with Lovano,

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, Tim Berne,

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, Uli Lenz, Karl Berger, Gerry Hemingway,

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, Nicolas Simian, Perry Robinson,

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, and Jaki Byard. He has played on over 60 recordings and been a member of numerous collective ensembles, including the ensemble that recorded

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's ''

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'' in 1990. Schuller has taught at the

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and at

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, and was the head of the jazz department at Schweitzer Institute of Music in Idaho from 1988.

Discography

As leader

* ''Conspiracy'' ( EmArcy, 1983) * ''The Eleventh Hour'' ( Enja/Tutu, 1993) * ''To Know Where One Is'' (GM, 1995) * ''Mu-Point'' (Tutu, 1996) * ''Snake Dancing'' (Tutu, 1996) * ''Force'' (Tutu, 1996) * ''Art of the Duo'' (Tutu, 2001) * ''Ong Song: Music for Acoustic Bass'' (GM, 2002) * ''As It Grows'' ( Hathut, 2004)

As sideman

With

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, 2005) With Russ Lossing * ''Dreamer'' ( Double-Time, 2000) * ''As It Grows'' (HatOLOGY, 2002) With Uli Lenz * ''Echoes of Mandela'' (Tutu, 1997) * ''Good-bye Venus'' (Tutu, 2007) With

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'' (

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, 1994) With

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* '' Tenderly'' (hatOLOGY, 1993

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* '' Coming Down the Mountain'' (hatOLOGY, 1993 997 With

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'' (ECM, 1982) * '' The Story of Maryam'' (Soul Note, 1984) * '' Jack of Clubs'' (Soul Note, 1985) * '' Misterioso'' (Soul Note, 1987) With Night Ark * '' Treasures'' (Traditional Crossroads, 2000) With

* '' Comin' and Goin''' ( Europa, 1983) With Herb Robertson * ''

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'' ( JMT, 1991) With

* '' Mal, Dance and Soul'' (Tutu, 1988) * '' Quadrologue at Utopia'' (Tutu, 1989) * '' More Git' Go at Utopia'' (Tutu, 1989) * '' Mal, Verve, Black & Blue'' (Tutu, 1994) With

Tom Varner Tom Varner (born June 17, 1957 in Morristown, New Jersey, Morristown, New Jersey, United States) is an American jazz French horn, horn (French horn) player and composer. Varner grew up in Millburn, New Jersey, where he started playing in the orc ...

* '' Motion/Stillness'' (Soul Note, 1982)

References

Leonard Feather Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer, who was best known for his music journalism and other writing. Biography Feather was born in London, England, into an u ...

and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, pp. 587–88. {{DEFAULTSORT:Schuller, Ed American jazz double-bassists American male double-bassists Musicians from New York City 1955 births Living people New England Conservatory alumni 21st-century American double-bassists 21st-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians Gunther Schuller American people of German descent