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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.
He 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 and groups 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)
- 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
- Ray Anthony
He has recorded and performed on twelve CDs, including with his own groups:
- The New Regime
- Blue Angel
- EW Quartet
- Troika
Other recording/performing credits include:
- Tim Olsen
- Dave Calarco’s Jazz Conclave
- Jeff King Blues Band
- Terry Gordon Quintet
- NitroJive
He 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)
- Clemente Barone (Flutist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra).