Ed Neumeister photo by Katharina Gossow

Ed Neumeister photo by Katharina Gossow

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Ed Neumeister photo by Katharina Gossow

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Ed Neumeister photo by Katharina Gossow

The debut of my Assembláge Jazz Orchestra on April 3rd at Birdland in New York City.

What Have I Done? Ed Neumeister Quartet with Gary Versace - piano, Drew Gress - contrabass & Tom Rainey - drums.

Relocated back to New York

Toured South America in November
Recorded "Into the Now" CD with the NeuHat Ensemble in New York in September
Toured Australia in April

Began regular relations as conductor with Budapest Jazz Orchestra

Began orchestrating films for Hans Zimmer and others
Reestablished Suite Ellington for an Austrian tour

Toured USA with Cleo Laine&John Dankworth

Cleo Laine & John Dankworth at the Jazz Alley, Seattle WA
Cleo Laine: Vocals, John Dankworth: saxs & arrangements, Jim Zimmerman: drums, Larry Dunlap: piano & Seward McCain: bass

Established Studio in Los Angeles
Performed with The NeuHat Ensemble at IAJE Conference, New York
Performed commission Suite for Piano Quartet & Soloist, Dublin, Ireland

Reestablished an expanded version of The NeuHat Ensemble, performing the ASCAP/IAJE commission Wake Up Call at IAJE Conference, New York

Hamburg Radio Big Band as composer, arranger, conductor, soloist
Ed Neumeister Quartet European Tour and recording

Ed Neumeister Quartet
Fritz Pauer: piano, Ed Neumeister, John Hollenbeck: drums & Drew Gress: bass

Commission, CD recording and concerts in Austria of Fantasy for Cello and Big Band

CD recording and concerts in Austria of Here and There - JBBG plays the music of Ed Neumeister

‍CD recording New York Trombone Quartet Plays! Collage.
Tenor trombonists Joseph Alessi, Ed Neumeister and Jim Pugh, and bass trombonist Dave Taylor, the NYTQ began in 1985.

Moved to Austria
Founded and toured with Suite Ellington, Ed’s adaptation of some of the larger works of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, Germany and Italy

Metropole Radio Orchestra as composer, arranger, conductor, soloist

First solo tour to Europe in Denmark, Switzerland, France, Austria and Germany

Ed Neumeister Quartet at Leibnitz Jazz Festival, 1997
Kuba Stankowitz: piano, Wayne Darling: bass & Alan Jones: drums

New York Philharmonic

Philly Joe Jones

Founded The NeuHat Ensemble, an 8-piece all star ensemble performing the works of Ed Neumeister, New York

The NeuHat Ensemble at Greenwihch House, New York City
Ed Neumeister, Kenny Werner: piano, Ryan Kisor: trumpet, Dennis Irwin: bass, Dick Oatts: soprano sax, Jamey Haddad: drums & perc., Billy Drewes: tenor sax & Don Byron: bari sax

Duke Ellington Orchestra
Duke Ellington Orchestra Trumpet section, ca. 1985
Barrie Lee Hall, Ron Tooley & Rick Baptist: Great trumpet section!!

Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra
Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra recording session: “20 Years at the Vanguard”, ca. 1985
Kenny Werner: piano; Dennis Irwin: bass; Joe Lovano, Ted Nash, Dick Oatts, Ralph Lalama & Gary Smulyn: saxes; Earl McIntyre, Douglas purviance, John Mosca, Ed Neumeister: trombones; Stephanie Faber: french horn; Mel Lewis: drums; Glen Drewes, Earl Gardner, Joe Mozello, Bill Pusey & Jim Powell: trumpets

Buddy Rich Big Band

Lionel Hampton Big Band, 1981
Franky Dunlap: drums, Curtis Fuller: trombone & Ed Neumester: trombone

Moved to New York
Kool Cigarette ad, ca. 1981, New York

Sacramento Symphony (First Trombone)

Circle Star Theater (First Trombone) with Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Dionne Warwick and many others

Joined one of Jerry Garcia´s Grateful Dead side projects, Reconstruction, with Gerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn, Ron Stallings and Gaylord Birch
Merl Saunders: organ & keyboards, Ed Neumeister: trombone, Ron Stallings: sax, Gaylord Birch: drums, John Kahn: bass & Jerry Garcia: guitar

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra

Toured with Paul Gonsalves (of Duke Ellington Orchestra fame)

Moved to Amsterdam

Stadium tour as music director and trombonist with Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker, Big Joe Turner, the Coasters, the Drifters and others

Played JJ Johnsons solo of Mack the Knife for 60,000 people at the Oakland Raiders first Halftime show in the new Oakland Coliseum on September 18, at the age of 14

Ed Neumeister at TEDxVienna

03 November 2012, TEDxVienna Talk

Interview by Doris Rothauer, brand unit

2013, Vienna

Interview by Teresa Arrieta for CHANGE TV

Ed Neumeister talks about his “focus” with Delfeayo Marsalis of the famed Marsalis family.
8 March 2012, New Orleans

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013

Portraits by Albert Handler, 2013