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Welcome
to Ed Alstrom's website! Thanks for stopping by.
What's
COMING UP?JUST HAPPENED?
(see the 'EVENTS' tab for more details)
ED'S NEW CD IS AVAILABLE NOW!!!

It's
been a long time in the making, but "GETTIN' ORGAN-IZED" is
finally ready. This is Ed's first CD featuring him on Hammond Organ, and
here he is joined by the prodigious talents of Charlie Jones on guitar
and Don Guinta on drums. The material is mostly originals by Ed, with
a couple by Charlie, and 3 cover songs. Musically, it's all over the map
(if you know Ed, you'd probably expect that it would be), and attempts
to operate within the grand organ trio tradition while infusing it with
a rawness and energy not always heard in that bag.
It
is available for purchase at:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/EdAlstrom1
- packaged CD
http://www.digstation.com/EdAlstrom
- download of individual tracks or the whole album
- Ed at SHANGHAI JAZZ - TWICE!
With the ROB PAPAROZZI QUARTET on Friday , Feb. 19; and in duet with DAVE
RIMELIS on Sunday, Feb. 21 (see the 'EVENTS' tab for details).
- with THE UPSIDERS at CHARLIE BLOOD'S in Garfield, Sat., Feb. 20.
- ED ON THE AIR!!
WFDU FUNDRAISER DRIVE - 89.1FM
Wednesday, February 24, 1:00P to 3:45P, with Ed's trio, Charlie
JOnes Band, Dave Keyes Band, and the Harmonious Five. Listen at www.wfdu.fm.
- with THE HARMONIOUS FIVE at TRUMPETS in Montclair, NJ on March 4.
- Ed began a new phase as Organist/Choir
Director at CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, Morristown, on November 1.
A full article from the Newark Star-Ledger is in the PRESS section
of this site. Check out some of Redeemer's musical performances with ED
at www.redeemermorristown.org,
or on YouTube (search "Redeemer Morristown").
- Ed plays organ on harmonica great Rob Paparozzi's GRAMMY-NOMINATED
new CD, "Etruscan Soul"
(go to http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/robpaparozzi
for more details).
-
Ed was a panelist at the BASEBALL AMERICANA SYMPOSIUM at the LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS, October 2 & 3, 2009, along with Ernie Banks, Larry Dierker,
Paul Dickson, and others.
-
YANKEE
BASEBALL!
Ed starts his 7th season as Weekend Organist at Yankee Stadium.
Still
don't believe it?
Click here
to hear the legendary Bob Sheppard introduce Ed's traditional
7th inning rendition.
This version is on the old Hammond at Yankee Stadium from 2004.
What ELSE?
-
Just want to give props to the amazing
LES PAUL (1915-2009). I had the good fortune to cross paths with him many
times over the years, and to go to his house a few times (a trip for sure!).
The innovation and guitar hero legacy is staggering, but he was also one
of the funniest and most rip-roaring people you'd ever meet. Below is
a photo of me sitting in with him at Iridium in NYC on his regular Monday
night gig,
this past February.
RIP, Les...
Also,
props to the late great ELLIE GREENWICH, who passed away on August 26,
2009. Ellie was a dear friend whom I met while performing on"Leader
Of The Pack" on Broadway in the early '80s. If you don't know the
name, you certainly know the music she wrote: "Be My Baby",
"Hanky Panky", "I Can Hear Music", "River Deep,
Mountain High", "Then He Kissed Me", "Leader Of The
Pack", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy",
and dozens of other smash hits of the 1960s. Phenomenally talented songwriter,
singer, and producer, and a thoroughly delightful human being.
RIP, Ellie...

- There are now many clips of Ed
playing live in various contexts on YOUTUBE!
Go to www.youtube.com, and search 'ed alstrom', and you'll find 'em!
revised
2/2/10
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