MP3 Eric Muhler Trio - Live At The Jazz School

Contemporary Piano Trio Jazz recorded live at Berkeley's Jazz School, Eric Muhler's original compositions spark this trio to amazing heights and beautiful impressionistic scenes as well.

12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Traditional Jazz Combo, JAZZ: Free Jazz



Details:
Eric Muhler began classical piano studies at the age of six with Jolan Kanyuk in Berkeley, California. He started his first rock and roll band when he was twelve years old. Near the end of his high school years at Skyline High School in Oakland, California, he began to teach himself blues by listening to records of his favorites, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Paul Butterfield, and many others.

In the early seventies he led a rock and roll band named Edge in and around Lake Tahoe and Reno. Returning to the East Bay he began the serious study of jazz piano, harmony and theory with Mike Nock, Bill Bell, Don Cardoza, and guitarist Dave Creamer.

Eric began playing accompaniment for jazz, modern and ballet dance classes at the Peralta Colleges, UC Berkeley, private dance companies, CSU Hayward, the Contra Costa Ballet, and was the Company Class Accompanist for the Oakland Ballet. He is currently an accompanist at Berkeley Ballet Theatre.

In the early eighties Eric co-led the jazz quintet Mobius Band with collaborator and electric guitarist Jim Slick and sidemen such as Bruce Williamson on saxophone, Mark Van Wageningen on fretless bass, and Paul Van Wageningen on drums.

Later in the eighties Eric formed the group Quiet Fire featuring Dave Creamer and himself as co-writers of the band's material and played for several years around the Bay Area club and jazz festival scene. This group featured many Bay Area greats such as Larry Schneider on tenor sax, Kenneth Nash on percussion, the Van Wageningen brothers on bass and drums and Michael Wilcox on bass and Glen Cronkhite on drums and percussion. The band produced a record, Red Daze, for Catero Records.

When computers began to become prominent in music production, Eric began a sideline of composing and producing scores for children's videos, feature films, and animated educational films. He also recorded the solo piano album Other Worlds. During this period he met his wife Jane and had two children, Alexandra and Zoë, now aged seventeen and fifteen.

Throughout his career as a full-time parent Eric continued to accompany for dance classes and to write new music and play the piano. During the 1990's he attended CSU Hayward where he earned a degree in English Literature.

His most recent musical endavor is the formation of the Eric Muhler Trio with six-string electric bassist Michael Wilcox and drummer Alan Hall. They have recorded the album Live At The Jazz School which is available on Slow Turn Reocrds.