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George Fludas
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George Fludas was born in Chicago on October 10, 1966. His interest in drumming began when he was very young due to the influence of his father, who played drums and was an avid jazz fan. His father taught him the basics and frequently took George to see the great jazz drummers, such as Art Blakey, Max Roach and Buddy Rich. He majored in music at Lane Tech High School and attended Roosevelt University in 1985-86, majoring in percussion. He left school in 1987 to learn his craft first hand by playing in Chicago clubs with local greats like Von Freeman, Jodie Christian and Lin Halliday, as well as in groups with the area's top young musicians of the day, including Ron Blake, Jesse Davis, David Hazeltine, Bobby Broom, and Eric Alexander. Over the past 20 years he has performed at concert halls, festivals, and clubs throughout North America, Europe and Asia with numerous jazz greats, including Kenny Burrell, Betty Carter, Junior Cook, Lou Donaldson, Tommy Flanagan, Benny Golson, Benny Green, Eric Reed, Johnny Griffin, Roy Hargrove, Barry Harris, Hank Jones, Buddy Montgomery, David "Fathead" Newman, Nicholas Payton, Marlena Shaw, Dr
Chicago To New York
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Afro Blue; Wise One; This Is Always; Only The Lonley; Hittin' The Jug; The Lamp Is
Low; Agel Eyes.
Eric Alexander: Chicago To New York
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, widely praised for years as one of the jazz world's foremost tenor saxophonists, greets listeners with an unforeseen yet tantalizing curve ball on his latest album, Chicago to New York, employing his luminous soprano sax to enhance the first two numbers, John Coltrane's “Afro Blue" and “Wise One," before unleashing his trustworthy and perceptive ...
Eric Jacobson: Heading Home
by Jack Bowers
There is a sensible piece of advice known to every baseball batter that has been taken to heart by Milwaukee-based trumpeter Eric Jacobson's concerning his hard-hitting quintet: come out swinging. Which is precisely what happens on Heading Home, Jacobson's second (or perhaps third) recording as leader of his own ensemble, whose opening number, “Survival," proves beyond ...
Heading Home
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Survival; Three of a Kind; Manty Time; My Love for Amy; Sunset Suite; Pause Time; You're Alright. The World's All
Wrong; Heading Home.
Eric Jacobson: Heading Home
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Wisconsin trumpeter, composer-arranger, educator and author Eric Jacobson and his team deliver Heading Home, his third album as leader. Offering eight Jacobson originals played by Chicago heavyweights and a New Yorker guest, all Jacobson regulars, the album, a hard bop retrospective, is arguably--if not definitively--the trumpeter's finest outing to date. “Survival" opens in ...
Eric Jacobson: Heading Home
by Paul Rauch
Trumpeter Eric Jacobson has settled in on the Chicago club scene, making musical alliances along the way that include the very top tier of that talent rich scene. For his latest venture into the studio, he employs the talents of master tenorist Geof Bradfield, Chicago first call bassist Dennis Carroll and the always swinging George Fludas ...
Survival
Album: Heading Home
By Eric Jacobson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:26
Now, THAT'S Amore!
Label: Late Nite Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Speak Softly, Love (The Godfather Theme) (Kusik-Rota) 3:52
2. Around the World (Adamson-Young) 3:28
3. The Look of Love (David-Bacharach) 5:48
4. That's Amore (Brooks-Warren) 2:50
5. Do You Like What You See? (Lamphere) 3:21
6. God Bless America (Berlin) 3:17
7. I'd Like to Come Back to You (Lamphere) 2:45
8. A Slow Hot Wind (Gimbel-Mancini) 4:22
9. Charade (Mercer-Mancini) 2:54
10. Think Happy (Lamphere) 2:41
11. For All We Know (Lewis-Coots) 4:03
12. Parla Più Piano (Buoncompagni-Rota) 3:10
13. The Braves Go All the Way (Lamphere) 2:55
14. Questo è Amore (Giacobetti-Warren) 2:30
Puttin' On the Ritz
By Rich Willey
Label: Boptism Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Poor Butterfly; If I Should Lose You; I'll Be Seeing You; Puttin' On the Ritz; Melancholy Baby; Holy Trinity (Radio Edit);
Song for Janet; Uncle Remus; Sweet Lorraine; Hard Hearted Hannah; But for the Grace of God; Holy Trinity (Full
Version).
