Musical Resumé

Mark W. Osteen
6700 Tweedbrook Rd.
Baltimore, MD 21239
mosteen@loyola.edu
410-339-7721
mosteen@loyola.edu | mlcost33@comcast.net

Educational | Publications | Public Lectures and Professional Conferences | Performing Career | Recordings | Selected Compositions | Selected Arrangements

Educational

• 1969-1972: Libby Senior High School Band and Stage Band, Libby, MT.
• 1972: All-State Band, Tenor Saxophone (Montana)
• 1973-76: Saxophone performance study; teacher, Gerald Doty, University of Montana.
• 1972-76: University of Montana Jazz Workshop, dir: Lance Boyd
• 1972: second chair, tenor saxophone
• 1974-5: baritone saxophone
• 1975-6: first chair, tenor saxophone
• Private saxophone teacher, Missoula, MT, 1979-82

• Tenor saxophone; arranger, composer, Loyola College Jazz Ensembles, 1991-present
• Taught seminar: Blue Notes: The Literatures of Jazz, in Loyola College English Department, Fall, 2004.

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Publications

        Books and Journal Issue

• Co-editor (with Frank J. Graziano), Music at the Crossroads: Lives and Legacies of Baltimore Jazz. Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2010. A collection of thirteen essays written in collaboration with Loyola University students in my Aperio seminar, spring, 2010. Includes photos and appendix.
• Editor, The Baltimore Real Book: Compositions by Baltimore Jazz Artists. Baltimore: BJA, 2007 (A "fake" book featuring 58 compositions by BJA member artists).
• Editor, "Blue Notes: Toward a New Jazz Discourse," a special issue of the scholarly journal Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 37.1-2 (Spring & Summer, 2004). Includes my introduction, "Blue Notes Toward a New Jazz Discourse" (pp. 1-46); edited 13 essays and four reviews. 352 pp.

        Article and Reviews

• "Jazzing the Gift: Improvision, Reciprocity, Excess."  Rethinking Marxism 22.4 (Fall 2010): 569-80.
• "Rhythm Changes: Copyright, Contrafacts, and Jazz Modernism." Modernism and Copyright. Ed. Paul K. Saint-Amour. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. 89-113.
• Review of Alfred Appel, Jr. Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (Summer, 2004): 341-3.

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Public Lectures and Professional Conferences

• Lecture: "Music at the Crossroads: Baltimore Jazz History." Baltimore City Historical Society,January, 2011 and Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African-American History, April, 2011.
• "Jazzing the Gift: Improvisation, Reciprocity, Excess." Paper delivered at Surplus/Excess Conference, Riverside, CA, April, 2008.
• "So What is Modern Jazz? A History of Segments and Fusions." Public lecture and concert for Jammin' at the Mansion concert series, Baltimore, May, 2005 and Germano's Trattoria, July, 2011.
• Paper: "Jazz Modernism: Romantic or Neoclassical?" ALSC Conference, New Orleans, November, 2004.
• Chair and Respondent: "Improvisation in Jazz Writing." SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, November, 2003.
• Chair, organizer and respondent, "Blue Notes: Jazz History, Poetics and Fiction." SAMLA Convention, Baltimore, November, 2002.
• Chair and Respondent, "Writing Jazz." MLA Convention, New Orleans, December, 2001

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Performing Career

Pacific Northwest

• 1971-2: vocalist, Isvara (hard rock)
• 1974: vocals, saxophone, Jailbait (blues-rock)
• 1975-78: lead vocals, saxophone, keyboards, Bailey Flyer (hard rock and funk)
  Performed at clubs and dances in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Western Canada.
• 1978-79: lead vocals, saxophone, keyboards, percussion, Daily Planet (top 40, fusion, hard rock). Performed at clubs and dances in Montana, Idaho, Washington, Western Canada.
• 1979-82: leader, lead vocals, saxophone, keyboards, Straitlace (top 40, fusion, rock).,Top one-nighter band in the region; also played clubs throughout Montana, Idaho and Washington.

Atlanta

• 1983-87: vocals, keyboards, saxophone, No System ('60s rock and r & b).

Baltimore

• 1994-present: leader, vocals, saxophones, Cold Spring Jazz Quartet. Mainstream jazz group performs at clubs, concerts, and private venues throughout Maryland/DC region. http://www.coldspringjazz.com
• 2011: first chair, tenor saxophone, Baltimore Jazz Alliance Big Band.

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Recordings

• Producer, Baltimore Jazzscapes II, a compilation CD by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance. Also  alto saxophone on "Fallow" by Cold Spring Jazz Quartet.
• Producer, saxophones and vocals, Cold Spring Jazz Quartet. Urban Pastoral. 2008.
• Producer: Baltimore Jazzscapes, a compilation CD by the Baltimore Jazz Alliance. Also tenor saxophone on "Imagine That," by Cold Spring Jazz Quartet.
• Producer, saxophones, vocals, Cold Spring Jazz Quartet. Same Place. Different Time. 2003. http://www.coldspringjazz.com/CD.htm

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Selected Compositions

(For Jazz combo)

• "The Amen Corner" (hard bop) 2002 (recorded on CSJQ CD Same Place. Different Time)
• "Cam's Blues" (blues with bridge) 2003 (recorded on CSJQ CD, Same Place. Different Time)
• "Blue Meridian (slow jazz/blues) 2003 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "Petals in the Rain" (ballad) 2004
• "Leap Day" (funk) 2004 (performed in concert by Loyola Jazz Combo, December, 2004; also in CSJQ gig book and included in Baltimore Real Book)
• "Isabel's Wake" (Latin) 2004 (performed in concert by Loyola Jazz Combo, April 2005)
• "Seventh Heaven" (uptempo jazz) 2004
• "Saffron" (jazz waltz) 2005
• "Song for a Sparrow" (modernist) 2005 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "Ariel" (uptempo jazz) 2005
• "January Greens (for Scott G)" (blues with a bridge) 2006
• "Black Olive” (6/4) 2006 (in CSJQ gig book; in Baltimore Real Book; recorded on CSJQ’s Urban Pastoral)
• “The Surge” (blues in 5/4) 2006 (premiered December 2007, Loyola Jazz Combo)
• “Hmmmm?” (calypso/modern) 2006 (in CSJQ gig book)
• “Sneakin’” (shuffle) 2007 (in CSJQ gig book; in Baltimore Real Book; recorded on CSJQ’s    Urban Pastoral)  
• “Fallow” (ballad) 2007 (in CSJQ gig book; recorded on CSJQ’s Urban Pastoral)
• “Big Daddy” (hard bop) 2007 (in CSJQ gig book; performed by Loyola Jazz Combo, Dec. 2008)
• “Clean and Mean” (jazz-rock) 2008 (in CSJQ gig book)
• “Aubade," w/ lyrics by Ned Balbo (bossa nova) 2008 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "Mortal Coil" (modern jazz) 2008 (in CSJQ gig book; performed by Loyola Jazz Combo, April,  2010)
• "On a Shoestring" (uptempo bop) 2008
• "Tomcat's Croon" (medium groove) 2008 (in CSJQ gig book; performed by Loyola Jazz Combo, April, 2009)
• "The Violet Hour" (bossa nova) 2009 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "A Blue Streak" (uptempo jazz) 2009 (in CSJQ gig book; premiered by Loyola Jazz Combo, December, 2009)
• "Flamenco Rojo (flamenco w/ prelude) 2009
• "Utopia Nova" (bossa nova) 2009 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "Brown Study" (ballad) 2009 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "October Light" (rumba) 2009
• "Hagerstown" (medium jazz) 2010
• "For Libby" (ballad) 2010
• "Straitlaced" (boogaloo) 2010
• "While You Were Gone" (5/4) 2010
• "Blues in Our Flat" (Medium blues) 2010 (in CSJQ gig book)
• "Janus" (ballad) 2011
• "Going Viral" (uptempo bop) 2011
• "The Seed" (ballad) 2011
• "Right Side Up" (jazz waltz) 2011
• "Ojos Castaños" (samba) 2011

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Selected Arrangements

• "Crisis" (Freddie Hubbard): three horns, rhythm section 2002
• "Reincarnation Blues" (Wayne Shorter) three horns, rhythm section 2004
• "Big 'P'" (Jimmy Heath) three horns, rhythm section 2006
• “Bakai” (Cal Massey) three horns, rhythm section, 2007
• “The Surge” (Mark Osteen) three horns, rhythm section, 2007
• “The Drive” (Oliver Nelson) combo w/ two horns, 2008
• "Sneakin'" (Mark Osteen) combo w/ two horns, 2008
• "Clean and Mean" (Mark Osteen) combo w/ three horns, 2008
• "Big Daddy" (Mark Osteen) combo w/ four horns, 2008
• "Tomcat's Croon" (Mark Osteen) combo w/ four horns, 2009
• "Peggy's Blue Skylight" (Charles Mingus) combo with four horns, 2009
• "Mortal Coil" (Mark Osteen) combo with two horns, 2009
• "Hagerstown" (Mark Osteen) combo with four horns, 2011

        All performed by Loyola Jazz Combo.

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