ed Wise and His New Orleans Jazz Band Presented by Tri-State Jazz Society Celebrating Our 25th Anniversary Year at Community Arts Center

Ed Wise began playing bass at age 12, discovered jazz at 15, and started his professional career at 17. He's been on the music faculty at Loyola University and served as musical director for the University of Pennsylvania's jazz ensemble.
Relocating to Philadelphia from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, he has served as a member of the Tri-State Jazz Society board of directors and has appeared at numerous jazz venues and festivals throughout the country and abroad. In mid-2013 he returned to“The Big Easy” to perform more frequently with Pete Fountain, Connie Jones, Banu Gibson, Tim Laughlin, and other New Orleans notables. Ed and his New Orleans Jazz Band blew the roof off at Brooklawn in 2011 and again at...

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Ed Wise began playing bass at age 12, discovered jazz at 15, and started his professional career at 17. He's been on the music faculty at Loyola University and served as musical director for the University of Pennsylvania's jazz ensemble.
Relocating to Philadelphia from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, he has served as a member of the Tri-State Jazz Society board of directors and has appeared at numerous jazz venues and festivals throughout the country and abroad. In mid-2013 he returned to“The Big Easy” to perform more frequently with Pete Fountain, Connie Jones, Banu Gibson, Tim Laughlin, and other New Orleans notables. Ed and his New Orleans Jazz Band blew the roof off at Brooklawn in 2011 and again at
Silverside Church in Wilmington, DE in 2012, playing both traditional New Orleans favorites and less-frequently performed jazz classics. His first CD with the band (2005) featured original and imaginative arrangements of the traditional New Orleans literature for 8, 9, and 10-piece ensembles. The 6-piece unit for this concert will capture the same seamless spirit plus bayou-hot solo work that define an Ed Wise-led ensemble.

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