Ed Metz was given his first pair of drumsticks at the tender age of three from the drummer in his dad's dixieland band.He originally took piano lessons, then trumpet and finally drums. "Little Eddie" played his first professional job when he was twelve and hasn't stopped since!

At high school age he toured with the New McKinney's Cotton pickers. He attended E. Michigan U. and played with Jim Dapogny and Gene Mayl. Graduating from William Patterson College, NJ, in its acclaimed Jazz Studies program, Ed spent six months touring with the Count Basie Orchestra and since that time has performed with some of the biggest names in jazz including Chick Corea, The Woddy Herman Orchestra, and Scott Hamilton, as well as entertainment greats Bob Hope, not forgetting The Smothers Brothers, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Shirley Jones.

Ed completed college in N.J. and then toured with Count Basie in '82. He moved to Orlando to work at Disney World, where he was involved with a wide variety of musical activity. In '89 he was involved in the Black Dog phenomenon, appearing at 50 jazz festivals in 3 years.

He has appeared on more than 60 recordings, and in 1999 began recording with his own group for the Nigel-Heyer label of Hamburg, Germany. That recording is entitled "Tough Assignment" and five more CDs on various labels are scheduled for release.