Eric Kloss

Biography

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

At the beginning of the 1990s he taught at Duquesne University, and then to conduct at Carnegie Mellon University jazz studies.

Disco Graphical Notes

• 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)