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Edward WalterBiography: Born in spring of 1977 in Healdsburg California, Edward Walter was brought into a musical family. His mother played the piano, guitar and violin while dad played the radio. Convinced a life in music was not for him, Edward strove to be a teacher in his youth, but the call of the wild had been sounded in his soul. After leaving high school and starting a prestigious five year junior college career Edward was exposed to Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Eric Dolphy. This was the music he was looking for. At the same time as starting college Edward joined the 91st Division Army Reserve Band. Had he known at that time that the first and last gigs he’d play in the Army were funerals, he may have thought twice.Playing for nearly two decades now, Edward has played in almost every style imaginable. From full military marching band to small jazz group, the notes remain the same. After a number of years playing throughout the Bay Area and the western United States, Edward heeded that call that has misled so many. He up and left his home of twenty-four years and headed to Southern California to attend school. The school shall remain nameless, but let’s just call it UC Disney. While at UC Disney, Edward was mentored by Susan Allen and studied with Wadada Leo Smith, John Fumo and Edward Carroll, adding truth to the maxim that “Two Ed’s are better than one!” After a short year at UC Disney the well went dry and Edward could no longer afford the Kings Ransom demanded by the Mouse, so he headed north to learn a more marketable skill, pizza. After a post 9/11 charged stint as an active duty Army trumpeter, Edward left the army in 2004, sighting “irreconcilable artistic differences” as a reason for ending the eight-year relationship. The Army kept pointing to the results of some test involving a letter rhyming with “T” while Edward insists the reasons for the split stem from their unwillingness to let him start the Army’s one and only free ensemble. Edward has many multi media pieces in the works and is highly involved in the Sequential Ensemble. In his spare time, Edward enjoys comic books and yard work. Email: sequentialensemble@gmail.com |