Marty Ehrlich

Biography

New York based reed player and composer, active since the early 1970s. Ehrlich moves between avant-garde jazz, post-bop and contemporary composition, leading the Dark Woods Ensemble, the Traveler's Tales Quartet and a large ensemble, and collaborating with *Myra Melford*, *Andrew Cyrille* and *Mark Dresser*. His playing pairs a lyrical tone with deep schooling in the jazz tradition, and his long form compositions have been compared with those of *Julius Hemphill* and *Charles Mingus*.