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Chilowicz, Alex. A career retrospective of Eddie Sauter, jazz’s overlooked composer and innovator. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3ZP44Q8

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TitleA career retrospective of Eddie Sauter, jazz’s overlooked composer and innovator
NameChilowicz, Alex (author); Porter, Lewis (chair); Martin, Henry (internal member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2013
Other Date2013-05 (degree)
SubjectJazz History and Research, Jazz musicians--United States--Biography, Composers--United States--Biography, Sauter, Eddie
Extentvi, 177 p. : ill.
DescriptionWith a career that spanned nearly four decades during the height of jazz’s popularity, Eddie Sauter contributed arrangements and compositions to some of the most significant jazz groups in the music’s history. Through his unique style, his constant desire to expand upon his compositional prowess through studies with various classical composers, and his general willingness to experiment with unusual melodic and harmonic gestures, Sauter produced music vastly different from that of most of his contemporaries. It is for this reason that the pensive composer was deemed “twenty years ahead of his time” by several critics of the day. As the chief architect for much of Red Norvo’s songbook in the 1930s, dozens of arrangements and compositions for Benny Goodman in the early 1940s, creative originals for Ray McKinley in the late 1940s, a unique repertoire with co- conspirator Bill Finegan in their jointly led “expanded” big band of the 1950s, and a handful of gems for Stan Getz with orchestral accompaniment in the 1960s, “prolific” barely begins to describe the output of Eddie Sauter. This thesis examines the life of the obscure yet influential composer/arranger Eddie Sauter from his curious beginning in 1914 as the adopted son of a German florist in Nyack, NY, through his forty year career spent among some of jazz’s most important individuals, until his untimely death at the age of 66 in 1981.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
NoteIncludes vita
Noteby Alex Chilowicz
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3ZP44Q8
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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