Edwin G. Schuller is an American jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 bassist and composer.

Schuller was born in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

; his father is Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller

Gunther Schuller is an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, and jazz musician.- Biography and works :...

 and his younger brother is drummer George Schuller

George Schuller

George Schuller is an American jazz drummer. He is the son of composer Gunther Schuller.He was born in New York City and raised in Boston, graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music with a BA in jazz performance in 1982. He then played locally with Herb Pomeroy, Ran Blake, George...

. 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

Ricky Ford

Ricky Ford is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.Ford was born in Boston and studied at the New England Conservatory. In 1974 he recorded with Gunther Schuller and then played in the Duke Ellington Orchestra under Mercer Ellington from 1974 to 1976...

. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music

New England Conservatory of Music

The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, is the oldest independent school of music in the United States.The conservatory is home each year to 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies along with 1400 more in its Preparatory School as well as the School of...

. Schuller has played with Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings...

, Joe Lovano

Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...

, Ted Curson

Ted Curson

Theodore "Ted" Curson is a jazz trumpeter. He is perhaps best-known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus....

, Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman

Dave Liebman is an American saxophonist and flautist. In June 2010, he received a NEA Jazz Masters lifetime achievement award from the National Endowment for the Arts.-Biography:...

, Jimmy Knepper

Jimmy Knepper

James M. Knepper was an American jazz trombonist.He was a good friend and arranging/transcribing partner of bassist and composer Charles Mingus. Knepper was twice on the receiving end of Mingus' legendary temper...

, Clark Terry

Clark Terry

Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...

, Ran Blake

Ran Blake

Ran Blake is an American pianist and composer from Springfield, Massachusetts. In a career that spans five decades, Blake has created a unique niche in improvised music as an artist and educator...

, Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless

Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...

, Billy Hart

Billy Hart

William "Billy" Hart is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history.-Biography:Early on Hart performed in Washington, D.C...

, Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri

Mat Maneri, born on October 4, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York is an American composer, improviser and jazz violin and viola player, specifically derivatives such as the five-string viola, the electric six-string violin, and the baritone violin...

, Marty Ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich is a multi-instrumentalist and is considered one of the leading figures in experimental or avant-garde jazz....

, and Roland Hanna

Roland Hanna

Roland Hanna was an American Jazz pianist.Hanna studied classical piano as a boy, but was strongly interested in jazz. This increased after his time in military service.He studied at Eastman School of Music and Juilliard School...

, and has toured with Lovano, Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

, Tim Berne

Tim Berne

Tim Berne is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s...

, Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper

Jim Pepper was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and singer of Native American ancestry.-Biography:...

, Pat Martino

Pat Martino

Pat Martino is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, fusion, mainstream jazz, soul jazz and hard bop idioms.-Biography:...

, Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

, Uli Lenz

Uli Lenz

Uli Lenz is a German composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre.- Background :Born in Frankfurt am Main, he began taking piano lessons at the age of four. In the seventies he studied music composition for classical Piano and Cello at Dr...

, Karl Berger

Karl Berger

Karl Hanns Berger is a musicologist with a PhD in Music Sociology, jazz composer, jazz vibraphone and piano player.-Biography:...

, Gerry Hemingway

Gerry Hemingway

Gerry Hemingway is an American jazz composer and percussionist.He has performed with Ernst Reijseger, Anthony Davis, Earl Howard, Leo Smith, George Lewis, Anthony Braxton, Ray Anderson, Mark Helias, Reggie Workman, Michael Moore, Oliver Lake, Marilyn Crispell, Christy Doran, John Wolf Brennan, Don...

, Marty Cook

Marty Cook

Marty Cook is an American jazz trombonist.Cook was born in New York and raised in Ohio, where he began playing trombone at age seven. He played in New York in the late 1960s, recording with Marzette Watts in 1968. He played in a rock band in California from 1971–72 and then returned to New York,...

, Nicolas Simian, Perry Robinson

Perry Robinson

Perry Morris Robinson is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the noted composer Earl Robinson. -Biography:...

, Mingus Epitaph, and Jaki Byard

Jaki Byard

Jaki Byard was an American jazz pianist and composer who also played trumpet and saxophone, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and stride to free jazz...

. He has played on over 60 recordings and been a member of numerous collective ensembles.

Schuller has taught at the Newark Academy

Newark Academy

Newark Academy is a coeducational private day school located in Livingston, New Jersey. With both lower and upper schools, this institution comprises grades six through twelve...

 and at Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music

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

Idaho

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 from 1988.

As sideman

With Tim Berne

Tim Berne

Tim Berne is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.Described by critic Thom Jurek as commanding "considerable power as a composer and ... frighteningly deft ability as a soloist," Berne has composed and performed prolifically since the 1980s...

• The Ancestors
  The Ancestors
  The Ancestors is an album by Tim Berne and which was released on the Italian-based Soul Note label in 1983. It features two compositions by Tim Berne performed by the Tim Berne Sextet which consisted of Clarence Herb Robertson, Ray Anderson, Mack Goldsbury, Ed Schuller, Paul Motian and Tim Berne.-...
  
  (Soul Note, 1983)

With Joe Lovano

Joe Lovano

Joseph Salvatore "Joe" Lovano is a post bop jazz saxophonist, alto clarinetist, flautist, and drummer. Since the late 1980s, Lovano has been one of the world's premiere tenor saxophone players, earning a Grammy award and several nods on Down Beat magazine's critics' and readers' polls...

• Rush Hour
  Rush Hour (Joe Lovano album)
  Rush Hour is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano featuring an orchestra arranged and conducted by Gunther Schuller recorded in 1994 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
  
  (Blue Note, 1994)

With Paul Motian

Paul Motian

Stephen Paul Motian was an American jazz drummer, percussionist and composer of Armenian extraction.He first came to prominence in the late 1950s in the piano trio of Bill Evans, and later led several groups...

• Psalm
  Psalm (Paul Motian album)
  Psalm is the fifth album by Paul Motian to be released on the ECM label. It was released in 1982 and features the first recordings by Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, along with Ed Schuller and Billy Drewes.-Reception:...
  
  (ECM, 1982)
• The Story of Maryam
  The Story of Maryam
  The Story of Maryam is the first album by Paul Motian to be released on the Italian Soul Note label. It was released in 1984 and features performances by Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, along with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper.-Reception:...
  
  (Soul Note, 1984)
• Jack of Clubs
  Jack of Clubs (album)
  Jack of Clubs is the second album by Paul Motian to be released on the Italian Soul Note label. It was released in 1985 and features performances by Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, along with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper.- Reception :...
  
  (Soul Note, 1985)
• Misterioso
  Misterioso (Paul Motian album)
  Misterioso is the third album by Paul Motian on the Italian Soul Note label. It was released in 1987 and features performances by Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, along with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper.-Reception:...
  
  (Soul Note, 1987)

With Night Ark

Night Ark

Night Ark is an instrumental jazz quartet formed in 1986. The members are Ara Dinkjian, an American with Armenian descent, a Turkish-Armenian Arto Tunçboyacıyan, and Americans Armen Donelian and Marc Johnson. The quartet's most famous piece is a creation called: "Homecoming"...

• Treasures
  Treasures (Night Ark album)
  -Track listing:#"Picture"#"Homecoming"#"Trilogy: Part I - Birth"#"Moments"#"Adolescence"#"Of Song & Silence"#"Offering"#"Worm"all tracks composed and arranged by Ara Dinkjian, except track 06 by Ara Dinkjian and Sid Clark-Personnel:...
  
  (Traditional Crossroads, 2000)

With Mal Waldron

Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl Waldron was an American jazz and world music pianist and composer, born in New York City.Like his contemporaries, Waldron's roots lie chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s; but with time, he gravitated more towards free jazz and composition...

• Mal, Dance and Soul
  Mal, Dance and Soul
  Mal, Dance and Soul is an album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1987 and first released on the German Tutu label.-Reception:The Allmusic review awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "Dancing on the Flames" — 9:34...
  
  (Tutu, 1988)
• Quadrologue at Utopia
  Quadrologue at Utopia
  Quadrologue at Utopia is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring Jim Pepper recorded in 1989 and released on the German Tutu label.-Reception:Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.-Track listing:# "Ticket to Utopia" — 20:31...
  
  (Tutu, 1989)
• More Git' Go at Utopia
  More Git' Go at Utopia
  More Git' Go at Utopia is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron featuring Jim Pepper recorded in 1989 and released on the German Tutu label.-Track listing:# "More Git' Go at Utopia" — 20:43...
  
  (Tutu, 1989)
• Mal, Verve, Black & Blue
  Mal, Verve, Black & Blue
  Mal, Verve, Black & Blue is a live album by jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1994 and released on the German Tutu label.-Track listing:# "Judy Full Grown" — 12:28# "Transylvanian Dance" — 16:57# "Here Comes Mikey" — 11:39...
  
  (Tutu, 1994)

With Uli Lenz

Uli Lenz

Uli Lenz is a German composer, pianist, and producer creating music in the modern jazz genre.- Background :Born in Frankfurt am Main, he began taking piano lessons at the age of four. In the seventies he studied music composition for classical Piano and Cello at Dr...

• Echoes of Mandela (Tutu, 1997)
• Good-bye Venus (Tutu, 2007)

With Tom Varner

Tom Varner

Tom Varner is an American jazz horn player and composer.Varner studied piano in his youth with Capitola Dickerson of Summit, New Jersey. He holds a B.M...

• Motion/Stillness
  Motion/Stillness
  Motion/Stillness is the second album by American jazz French horn player and composer Tom Varner recorded in 1982 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.-Reception:...
  
  (Soul Note, 1982)