Jazz With Erik Egol at Rum&Sugar

Erik Egol on drums, Josh Smith on sax & Shawn Miller on bass.

“Over 100 years of playing experience between these 3 guys, expect beautiful and dangerous improvisation, some solo and duo deviations and lots of Coltrane.”

A New York transplant and life-long professional drummer, Erik played Dvorak at Carnegie Hall and rocked at CBGB's and Wetlands in NYC in his teens. After furthering his studies in percussion performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he hit the road in 1991 and toured nationally until 2004 with the progressive jazz quartet Schleigho, releasing 5 CD's and playing over 3000 shows with the likes of jazz great John Scofield, funk legend Maceo Parker and rock icons The Allman Bothers Band, who signed them in 1998 to their record label, Flying Frog Records, for whom they released 2 critically acclaimed albums....

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Erik Egol on drums, Josh Smith on sax & Shawn Miller on bass.

“Over 100 years of playing experience between these 3 guys, expect beautiful and dangerous improvisation, some solo and duo deviations and lots of Coltrane.”

A New York transplant and life-long professional drummer, Erik played Dvorak at Carnegie Hall and rocked at CBGB's and Wetlands in NYC in his teens. After furthering his studies in percussion performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston, he hit the road in 1991 and toured nationally until 2004 with the progressive jazz quartet Schleigho, releasing 5 CD's and playing over 3000 shows with the likes of jazz great John Scofield, funk legend Maceo Parker and rock icons The Allman Bothers Band, who signed them in 1998 to their record label, Flying Frog Records, for whom they released 2 critically acclaimed albums.

Erik now lives in Half Moon Bay, CA, playing regularly around the Peninsula with a wide range of artists from guitarist Harold Fethe to Spinal Tap's Viv Savage, and teaching 40 weekly students for Google in Mtn. View.

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