Selected Discography
AS LEADER:
Two Shades of Blue (Ed Byrne Music: 2000; re-released
Blue Truffle: 2014); arranger,
composer, leader, producer, slide & valve trombones
Conquistador – Latin Jazz Evolution (Blue Truffle: 2012);
arranger, composer, leader,
producer, trombone
Salsa World Series Volume 5 Cuba Jam (Spotify, Amazon,
Apple 2013); arranger,
composer, leader, producer, trombone on Conquistador - One
For Carlos
Counterpoise – featuring Mikaya McCraven (Simmer: 2016,
recorded 2003); arranger,
composer, leader, producer, trombone
AS SIDEMAN:
With Chet Baker
Chet Baker: Career: 1952-1988 (Amazon: 2005): slide &
valve trombone soloist
With Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker
Carnegie Hall Concert, Vol. 1 (CTI: 1974); slide &
valve trombone soloist
Carnegie Hall Concert, Vol. 11 (CTI: 1974); slide &
valve trombone soloist
Various Artists (with Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner ,
Thelonious Monk , Stan Getz, Miles
Davis, Dave Grusin, Wynton Marsalis, André Previn, Paul
Desmond, Thelonious Monk,
Gil Evans, Stan Getz, Dave Brubeck, Paul Chambers, Dave
Grusin, Steve Gadd, Roland
Hanna, Bob Brookmeyer, Gary Burton, Paul Desmond, Jim
Hall, Elvin Jones, Herbie
Hancock, and others):
The Very Thought of You: Jazz for Lovers (Legacy/Columbia:
1995), Chet Baker & Gerry
Mulligan – My Funny Valentine, w/ Ron Carter, Harvey
Mason, John Scofield, Bob James,
Dave Samuels, & Ed Byrne, trombone
The Best of Gerry Mulligan, Featuring Chet Baker (Amazon,
Apple: 1991); slide & valve
trombone soloist
With The Fania All Stars
A Band And Their Music: Campeones (Fania: 1974, 2008);
lead trombone
El Raton: Carlos Santana, cheo Feliciano, Jorge Santana,
Fania All Stars (Fania: 1974)
Live HD Film; trombone
Live at Yankee Stadium Vol 1 (Fania, 1975); trombone
Live at Yankee Stadium Vol 2 (Fania, 1975); trombone
Fania All Stars - Live (Fania: 1978); trombone
Pone Duro: The Fania All Stars Story (Fania: 2010); lead
trombone
Live In Africa (Fania: 2011), trombone
Salsa: Mis Mejores Exitos (Amazon, Apple: 2023); trombone
With Gene Krupa Big Band
World of Music Tribute to Gene Krupa Felt Forum: January
17, 1974 Volume I (Jazz
Legends: 1974); trombone
World of Music Tribute to Gene Krupa Felt Forum: January
17, 1974 Volume II (Jazz
Legends: 1974); trombone
With Maynard Ferguson
Live at the Great American Music Hall, Volume I (Status:
1973, 1994/1995); slide & valve
trombone soloist
Live at the Great American Music Hall, Volume II (Status:
1973, 1994/1995); slide & valve
trombone soloist
Maynard Ferguson Gold Disk (CBS/Sony: 1974); slide &
valve trombone soloist
The Whole World's His Stage (Columbia: 1977); slide &
valve trombone soloist
The Best of Maynard Ferguson (Columbia: 1980); slide &
valve trombone soloist
I Love Contemporary Jazz (CBS Records: 1986); slide &
valve trombone soloist
With Eddie Palmieri
Unfinished Masterpiece (Coco: 1974); trombone (Grammy
Award Winner: Best Latin
Recording)
Exploration-Salsa-Jazz-Descarga (Coco: 1978); trombone
Oyelo Que Te Conviene - Eddie Palmieri & Lalo
Rodriquez (Coco: 1975/1990); trombone
With Willie Colón And Mon Rivera
There Goes The Neighborhood, Se Chavo El Vecindario (Vaya:
1975); trombone
With Mel Torme
Live at the Maisonette (Atlantic: 1975); lead trombone
With Andy Harlow
El Campesino (Vaya: 1975); valve trombone soloist, slide
trombone
El Campesino (Amazon, Apple: 1995); valve trombone
soloist, slide trombone
With Bobby Vince Paunetto
Paunetto's Point (Pathfinder: 1976); slide & valve
trombone soloist, composer/arranger
Fenway Funk (Nominated, Grammy Award)
Commit to Memory (Pathfinder: 1976); slide & valve
trombone soloist, arranger
Various Artists: Airto Moreira, Bobby Paunetto, et al.
London Jazz Classics 2: Classic Soul
Jazz Music from Around the World (Soul Jazz: 1994);
Paunetto's Point (Pathfinder: 1976);
featured slide & valve trombone soloist,
composer/arranger
Commit to Memory/Paunetto's Point (Pathfinder: 1998);
slide & valve trombone soloist,
composer/arranger
With Conjunto Libre
Con Salsa, Con Ritmo, Volume I (Salsoul: 1976); trombone
soloist, arranger
Con Salsa, Con Ritmo, Volume II (Salsoul: 1976); trombone
soloist, arranger
Conjunto Libre - Tiene Calidad (Salsoul: 1978); trombone
soloist, arranger
Libre Greatest Hits (Salsoul: 1996); trombone soloist,
arranger
With Seguida
On Our Way To Tomorrow... (Fania: 1976); trombone
With Ethel Merman, Leslie Uggams
Sesame Street Christmas (Sesame Street: 1978); trombone
With Manu Dibango
Gone Clear (Mango: 1980); trombone
Ambassador (Mango: 1981/1993); trombone
Choc 'N Soul (Aux & Associes: 2010); trombone
With The Dalton Jazz Ensemble
The Dalton Jazz Ensemble (RCA: 1981); producer, director,
composer, arranger
Seven Steps to Heaven (Trutone: 1985); producer, director,
arranger, trombone, trumpet
soloist
With Don Sebesky
Full Cycle (Paddle Wheel: 1984); trombone soloist,
euphonium
With Steve McCraven
International World (ASP: 1991); composer, percussion,
vocals, trombone soloist
Song of the Forest Boogaraboo (World McC: 1994); featuring
Archie Shepp; trombone
soloist
Bosco (World McC: 1996); featuring Archie Shepp, Arthur
Blythe; trombone soloist
Black Studies (Big Tree: 2003); trombone soloist,
percussion, horn arrangements
With The Player's Association
Turn the Music Up! (Vanguard: 1978); lead trombone
Players Association-Turn The Music Up/Ride The Groove/The
Get Down Mellow Sound
(Vanguard: 1989); lead trombone
The Player's Association (Southbound: 1998); lead trombone
Various Artists: Tom Harrell, Mike Brecker, Jon Faddis,
David Sanborn, Joe Farrell, Bob
Berg; Earth, Wind and Fire and others - Cool Fever: From
Disco Jazz to Jazz House (Irma:1997); lead trombone
Various Artists. Cool Fever: From Disco Jazz to Jazz House
(Southbound: 1998); lead
trombone
With Various Artists
Nu Yorica! Culture Clash In New York City: Experiments In
Latin Music 1970-77 (Soul:
1972 – 1977/1996); trombone
Tropical con mis panas (Amazon, Apple: 1974/2021);
trombone
En Tu Salsa, Volume II (Universal, Amazon, Apple:
1974/2021); trombone
With Héctor Lavoe , Gloria Estefan, Cheo Feliciano, Mon
Rivera, Rubén Blades,
Willie Colón, and others:
Caminando con ritmo (Amazon, Apple: 2023); trombone
With Inés Desquinés
Inés Desquinés Sings Steve Lacey (Senators: 2003); horn
arrangements (arranger and
producer of Riddle and Cliché), trombone soloist
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Dr. Byrne has self-published his 17-book Linear Jazz
Improvisation Method (for all
instruments) on https://byrnejazz.com/
Linear Jazz Improvisation The Method (Book 1) Copyright ©
Ed Byrne 2001
LJI Triads (Book 2) Copyright © Ed Byrne 2001
LJI 7th Chords (Book 3) Copyright © Ed Byrne 2001
LJI Bichordal Triad Pitch Collection Etudes (Book 4)
Copyright © 2008 Ed Byrne
LJI Polytonal Triad Etudes (Book 5) Copyright © 2008 Dr.
Ed Byrne
LJI Functional Jazz Guitar Copyright © 2009 Dr. Ed Byrne
LJI Hot Lines-Jazz Standards Copyright © 2009 Dr. Ed Byrne
LJI Songbook Series (7 books-for all instruments which
apply LJI: Blue Monk, Blue Bossa,
Stella By Starlight, All The Things You Are, F Blues, I
Hear A Rhapsody, Blue Rendezvous
Copyright © Ed Byrne 2006
LJI Block Chord Keyboard Cadences © Ed Byrne 2008
Speaking of Jazz: Essays and Attitudes Copyright © Ed
Byrne 2008
The Influence of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel on Bix
Beiderbeck, Bill Evans and
Miles Davis (Edited Doctoral Dissertation) © Ed Byrne 1998