Eric Erhardt

Eric Erhardt: A Better Fate

by Dave Wayne
July 25, 2013

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 ...