Summer Jazz Lunch -Eric Marienthal

Eric Marienthal started his professional career with famed New Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt. He has since gone on to perform in over 80 different countries, record 14 solo CD’s and play on hundreds of records, films, television shows and commercial jingles.

Eric won two Grammy Awards and has seven nominations as a member of the Chick Corea Elektric Band and Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band. He has performed with a myriad of artists, including Elton John, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, Aaron Neville, Johnny Mathis, Dave Grusin, Lee Ritenour, David Benoit, The Rippingtons, The Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band, Patti Austin, Lou Rawls, David Lee Roth, The Yellowjackets, B.B. King, Ramsey Louis, Patti Labelle and Olivia Newton-John.

Nine of the songs recorded by Eric have made it to the top 10 of the National Contemporary Jazz Radio Charts and three have made it to No.1. Eric was voted as being one of the year’s “Favorite Alto Sax Players” in the JAZZIZ Magazine Reader’s Poll along with David Sanborn and Phil Woods.