Ted Dortch
Ted Dortch
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Saxophone Legend David Sanborn http://www.davidsanborn.com/
Ted Dortch
with the incomparable Bill Ramsay (Centralia, WA; Summer 2008)http://www.ups.edu/x17234.xml
Contact Ted at tjdortch@msn.com
Ted Dortch’s saxophone work is a melting pot of sound. He can swing from the smoothest jazz to hardcore be-bop to blues to swampy, filthy, funky, southern BBQ-eatin’ music. He knows exactly how to say what’s going on. He says it with his soul and speaks it through his horn. Other than what he says with his sax, he’s a man of few words, but enormous heart.
Ted’s music training is straight from the streets. His horn career began early in life. At the tender age of 10 he had already determined that playing the saxophone was the thing for his future. As early as high school, Ted was an all-star, playing for three years in the Georgia High School All-State Band. He attended the Naval School of Music and toured as a featured soloist with the 389th Army Band. Ted Dortch has blown sax with Latin bands in Miami, on the sidewalks, night clubs, and ballrooms of New York, and toured Europe playing clubs, festivals and major concert venues.
His credits, to name only some, include the Montreux jazz festival, Vienna Jazz and Tokyo jazz fests. He has performed or recorded with the Stylistics, Trudy Lynn, Ivan Neville, William Bell, Willie Clayton (the Chicago blues ambassador), Buddy Ace, Little Johnny Taylor, the Three Degrees, B.B. Coleman, Lowell Fulson, Travis Haddix, Sandra Hall, Jerry Butler, Luther "Houserocker" Johnson, Vernon Garret, Kip Anderson, the Drifters, the Chi-lites, Chick Willis, St. Clair Pinckney of James Brown's band, David Dee, Nappy Brown, Theodis Easly, Blues Boy Willy, and the Legendary Blues Band. Jimmy Smith, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Jimmy Dawkins.
Ted Dortch has been recorded on over 50 albums and has arranged for both film and video soundtracks. Among his many current music activities, Ted plays with and writes horn arrangements for the Blues Power Revue. His most recent recording is the BPR's forthcoming holiday music CD.
Ted is the Saxophone Technician at Highland Hill Music in Tacoma, WA.
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Birthdate: May 24
Musical influences: Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson; Arnett Cobb; Sonny Stitt; John Coltrane; Sonny Rollins; Michael Brecker; David Sanborn
Hobbies: golf, boating
Favorite food: Meat with pork on the side.
