Eric Wyatt

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Eric L. Wyatt (* 1961 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , composition ) of modern jazz .

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Wyatt grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn as the son of jazz musician Charles Wyatt . When he was ten, he had the opportunity to accompany his father on tours. He had first encounters in his family with Larry Ridley , Albert Dailey , David Lee , Wilbur Ware , as well as Gilly Goggins, Gary Bartz , Scoby Stroman , Paul Jeffrey and Roland Alexander . In the early 1970s, he saw Miles Davis performing on the bottom line . His high school teacher Charles Bergstein enabled him to attend Kingsborough Comm College. then he studied at Lehman College, where he had lessons from Stanley Cowell . During this time he met Arthur Rhames , who taught him and with whom he made his first recordings, which, however, remained unpublished. In addition to his career as a musician, he wrote music for television; his composition Welcome Home was the theme song for the NBA TV show One On One with Ahmad Rashad. He also wrote the music for the film Smoked by Fred Banting .

Wyatt's debut album, the soul-jazz- influenced production God Son was released in 1997, followed by the two post-bop- oriented albums Borough of Kings (Posi-Tone, 2014, with Duane Eubanks , among others ) and Look to the Sky (2017). Currently (2019) Wyatt appears in trio and quartet formations with musicians such as Theo Hill , Barry Stephenson , Taber Gable , Tyler Mitchell , Charles Goold and Kahlil Kwame Bell . In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 1995 and 2016, according to Tom Lord . a. with Al Foster , Rufus Reid , James Spaulding , Mark Soskin , Rodney Kendrick , Rhonda Ross, Lester Bowie , Yōichi Kobayashi , Ruth Brown , Robert Glasper , EJ Strickland , Darryl Hall , Shinobu Ito , Dewey Redman , Justine Robinson and Graham Haynes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brad Farberman: Eric Wyatt: The Brooklyn Sound - How the unsung sax master grew up inside NYC jazz history. JazzTimes, March 17, 2018, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Eric Wyatt, Tenor Sax.Smalls, September 1, 2019, accessed on September 1, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Wyatt, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyatt, Eric L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (tenor saxophone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn