Jazz Articles about Eric Erhardt

About Eric Erhardt

Album Review

Unlike a lot of jazz artists hawking a debut recording these days, reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Eric Erhardt is not fresh out of music school. He has been around for a while, playing for two decades in Broadway pit bands and with trad jazzers Ken Peplowski and Artie Shaw. A student of Dave Liebman, Erhardt's own musical interests are quite far afield of those of his past employers. He calls what he's created Acoustic Fusion, and if the 70's definition of fusion ...

Album Review

Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate

Read "A Better Fate" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 12, 2013

A Better Fate è l'album d'esordio per Eric Erhardt, musicista e compositore che in questa prova mette in gioco, con risultati alterni, sia la sua capacità di scrittura, in otto brani originali stilisticamente ben assortiti, che la propria rimarchevole padronanza strumentale al tenore, clarinetto e flauto. Il leader è affiancato da musicisti duttili, in grado di adattare le proprie caratteristiche verso le sue pieghe compositive, che spaziano da andamenti leggeri e vagamente reggae di “Not Like Before," brano che prende ...