Marty Ehrlich

Marty Ehrlich is an American multi-reedist and composer, equally fluent on clarinet, saxophone, and flute and counted among the leading voices of New York's downtown creative music since the 1980s. Born in 1955 in St. Paul, Minnesota, and raised in St. Louis, he came up amid the city's Black Artists Group before studying at the New England Conservatory with teachers including Gunther Schuller and Jaki Byard. He has performed with Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, and many others, and leads a range of his own ensembles, from duos to a jazz orchestra. He has recorded extensively as a leader and teaches at Hampshire College.