Eric Kloss

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Eric Kloss (born April 3, 1949 in Greenville , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor and alto saxophonist ).

biography

Blind since birth, Kloss began his professional career in clubs in the Pittsburgh area and worked with guitarist Pat Martino in 1965 ; In the same year he began to record a number of albums for the jazz label Prestige Records , which, according to Richard Cook and Brian Morton, are stylistically between bop and the fusion sounds of the electric Miles Davis bands of the time. In 1968/69 Kloss recorded the albums "Sky Shadows" and "The Land of the Giants", on which musicians such as Booker Ervin , Jaki Byard , Pat Martino, Richard Davis , Bob Cranshaw , Jack DeJohnette and Alan Dawson participated. He recorded his 1969 albums "To Hear is to See" (the title alludes to his blindness) and "Consciousness" from 1970 with the then Miles Davis-Sidemen Chick Corea , Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. After that, Kloss temporarily disappeared from the jazz scene to work as a teacher, but in the late 1970s he recorded several albums for the "Muse Records" label.

In the early 1990s he taught at Duquesne University and then directed jazz studies at Carnegie Mellon University .

Discographic notes

  • First Class Kloss (Prestige, 1967)
  • Sky Shadows in the Land of the Giants (Prestige, 1968/69) contains the two LPs Sky Shadows (Prestige, 1968) and In the Land of the Giants (Prestige, 1969)
  • Eric Kloss & the Rhythm Section (Prestige, 1969) contains the two LPs To Hear Is to See! (Prestige, 1969) and Consciousness! (Prestige, 1970)
  • One, Two, Free ( Muse Records , 1972)
  • Essence (Muse, 1973)
  • Bodies' Warmth (Muse, 1975)
  • Battle of the Saxes (Muse, 1976)
  • Together (Muse, 1976)
  • Now (Muse, 1978)
  • Celebration (Muse, 1979)
  • Sharing ( Omnisound , 1981)
  • Sweet Connections (1999, recorded 1979)

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SURNAME Kloss, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tenor saxophonist)
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Greenville , Pennsylvania