December 27th @ 8pm – Eric Walentowicz Quartet

ERIC WALENTOWICZ – (Saxophonist/Composer/) has thirty five years of performing experience as a musician.  He is a very in-demand saxophone soloist having performed with over thirty groups annually at over seventy venues a year for the past ten years.

Eric has worked as a musician in New York City, Detroit, Miami, Dallas, the Caribbean and the Capital District of NYS.  He has backed such artists as Laurel Masse (Manhattan Transfer) at The Egg in Albany, Johnny Mathis at the Palace Theatre in Albany, over five hundred weddings and fundraisers for the New York Players Entertainment Group, The Dallas Jazz Orchestra, The One O’clock Jazz Lab Band at North Texas, The Platters and Jackie Mason at the Fontainebleau in Miami FL, Rick DellaRatta’s Jazz For Peace, the Schenectady Symphony, the Miami Symphony Orchestra (Rhapsody and Blue) and several Miami-based Latin bands specializing in Salsa, Merengue, and Cumbia styles.  As a staff musician for Norwegian Cruise lines he backed Bobby Rydell, Fabian, Eddie Fisher, George Merritt and Ray Anthony.

Eric has also recorded and performed on twelve CD’s.  These include his own groups:  The New Regime, Blue Angel, EW Quartet and Troika as well as Tim Olsen, Dave Calarco’s Jazz Conclave, Jeff King Blues Band, Terry Gordon Quintet and NitroJive.

Eric has studied saxophone/flute and jazz improvisation privately with Ed Calle (with Miami Sound Machine, Julio Iglesias), Rick Margitza (with Miles Davis, Maria Schenider, Moutin Bros.), Gary Campbell (Fulbright Scholar at Florida International University, Co-Author of Patterns For Jazz/Expansions), Gary Keller (University of Miami, Sonny Stitt Transcriptions), Andy Middleton, Ted Nash (with Wynton Marsalis) Bob Franceschini (with Mike Stern), Dave Tofani (NYC Broadway Musician) and Clemente Barone (Flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra).