Ted Dunbar

A self-taught guitarist who later became an instructor, Ted Dunbar's pithy riffs, taut solos, and accompaniment have been featured in hard bop, soul-jazz, jazz-rock, and free situations. Dunbar played trumpet and guitar at Texas Southern in the mid-and late '50s. He worked with <a href="spotify:artist:6ui4w9G4l3CxehFTGTQtPX">Arnett Cobb</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6wLAT0j852VpRG5HzsiGUg">Don Wilkerson</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:14fyFK7pR901yqcjwbzYGy">Joe Turner</a>. Dunbar studied and played with <a href="spotify:artist:62RAYdDJQfduAz1ZiinWp4">Dave Baker</a> at Indiana in the early '60s, sometimes subbing for <a href="spotify:artist:03YhcM6fxypfwckPCQV8pQ">Wes Montgomery</a>. He moved to New York in the mid-'60s, and performed and recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:7g9DeYASD3RzlT4kDchsQZ">Gil Evans</a> in the '70s, as well as <a href="spotify:artist:056ewKKC7ayMJeL7y5h2cb">Tony Williams' Lifetime</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1UBOhgHqPdFDiDW3qF1y1d">Frank Foster</a>. He also worked with <a href="spotify:artist:1VEzN9lxvG6KPR3QQGsebR">Sonny Rollins</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4wnzivx3OQ3vjrySAdTdJP">Ron Carter</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7DACbUcNWTTQqRVMpvMjqK">Billy Harper</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1tGINpEJVUsQXssRC28ugo">Roy Haynes</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2EsmKkHsXK0WMNGOtIhbxr">McCoy Tyner</a>. He was involved with <a href="spotify:artist:2jiQ4lRvpc4ZTtUFMB3dGF">Billy Taylor's</a> Jazzmobile project, the New Jazz Repertory Co., and <a href="spotify:artist:7yJyWrvh0Qqh3bSZbbdiXq">the National Jazz Ensemble</a> before joining Livingston College's (Rutgers) faculty in 1972. On top of recording sessions as a leader for <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Xanadu%22">Xanadu</a> and Muse, Dunbar also wrote several books on jazz harmony and guitar before his death in 1998. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi