Eric Marienthal

Eric Marienthal ( born December 13, 1957 in Sacramento, California) is an American saxophonist.

Life and work

After finishing school in 1976 he went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was taught by Joe Viola. He left college five years later with one of the highest awards, the Berklee Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding achievments in contemporary music.

In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. There he came under at a Disneyland band and played with Al Hirt. He was discovered by Chick Corea, who signed him for his Elektric Band. He produced six albums with Corea and they won two Grammys. But soon he finished off an own contract and Marienthal produced his first album, Voices of the Heart.

But he was now in demand as a studio musician. In well over 50 recordings he played with such well-known people such as Lee Ritenour, Dave Grusin, David Benoit, Don Grusin, Dave Weckl, John Patitucci and the Rippingtons and with the GRP All Stars, but also in other genre, as with Elton John Stevie Wonder and Burt Bacharach.

Each summer he organized beyond a charity concert for High Hopes Head Injury Program, an organization which campaigns for traumatic brain injuries and in Orange, California, is located. Marienthal has also the textbooks Comprehensive Jazz Studies & Exercises, The Ultimate Jazz Play-Along and The Music Of Eric Marienthal written.

Albums

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann: Reclam Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2002; ISBN 3-15-010528-5
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