Music from Marty Ehrlich's Travelers Tales featuring Stan Strickland

The Traveller's Tale

Melody For Madeleine

The Short Circle In The Long Line

Pliant Plaint

Willie Whipporwill's Back Slidin' Heart Throb Two-Step

Marty Ehrlich is celebrating 40 years in the nexus of creative music centered in New York City. He began his musical career in St. Louis, Missouri, performing and recording with the Human Arts Ensemble. He then graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston in 1977. Since coming to New York, he has made thirty recordings of his compositions for ensembles including his Dark Woods Ensemble, Traveler’s Tales Quartet, Rites Quartet, Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble, as well as numerous collaborative groups. His most recent recording is "Trio Exaltation", with John Hebert and Nasheet Waits.


As a multi-instrumentalist passionate about improvisation and interpretation, he has performed, toured, and recorded with a who’s who of contemporary composers including Muhal Richard Abrams, Ray Anderson, Anthony Braxton, John Carter, Andrew Cyrille, Jack DeJohnette, Anthony Davis, Mark Dresser, Michael Formanek, Don Grolnick, Chico Hamilton, Julius Hemphill, Andrew Hill, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, Leroy Jenkins, John Lindberg, Myra Melford, Modeski/Martin/Woods, James Newton, Bobby Previte, Rufus Reid, David Schiff,  and Wadada Leo Smith .

Ehrlich has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony, the New York City Opera, and other classical ensembles. He has worked with the Jose Limón and Bill T. Jones dance companies. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition, the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist Residency at Harvard University (with painter Oliver Jackson), composition grants from Chamber Music America, the NEA, and NYFA, and a Distinguished Alumni award from NEC. He is currently Professor of Jazz and Contemporary Music at Hampshire College.

Marty Ehrlich

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