Guitarist Jerome Epps - "Eclectic Fusion"

Jazz Funk Guitarist Jerome Epps

Welcome to the home of “Eclectic Fusion” my new CD release. Eclectic Fusion blends jazz-funk, latin-jazz & fusion together with contemporary dance beats for a great new sound. Preview Tracks (below), buy CDs or individual Mp3 tracks. Experience this collection of jazz-funk & latin rhythms, it’s all there on the new CD “Eclectic Fusion”. Enjoy!

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CD Now Available on iTunes – Download digital tracks here!

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GOOGLE MUSIC & “ECLECTIC FUSION“

Check out my CD “Eclectic Fusion” just added to Google’s Android Market. I’m offering a free track to “Google Music” members, download my free track “Smooth Funk” available now at Google Music.

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Preview CD Tracks!
Track Title	Click to Preview	Click to Buy
1: Smooth Funk	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
2: Midnight Groove	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
3: Rumba Salsa Rump	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
4: Too Hip 2 Hop	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
5: Enigma	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
6: Celebacion	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
7: Bossa De Nova	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
8: Awakening	CDBaby iTunes	CD Baby
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Biography

Born in WashingtonD.C., I began to embrace music at a very young age. With my father being an accomplished jazz saxophonist, it wasn’t long before the musical gene was passed on to me. I spent hours listening to my father practice to the likes of Miles, Coltrane, Bird, and the who’s who of jazz, while at the same time embracing the Latin Jazz sounds of Sergio Mendes and Antonio Carlos Jobim. With this eclectic foundation of music under my belt a strange thing happened to me… and that strange thing was called “Jimi Hendrix”. Suddenly it was all about the guitar and psychedelic rock. I got my first guitar and quickly began performing in numerous rock bands covering artists like Eric Clapton (Cream), Terry Kath (Chicago), Jimmy Page (Zepplin), and the original Santana band. Later my interests would shift back towards r&b, soul and funk, only to make the ultimate migration to more progressive jazz-rock fusion artists like Chick Corea, Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra, and Weather Report.

Oddly enough, as a youngster my first music teacher was Roberta Flack (of “Killing Me Softly” fame) who taught me when I was in the D.C. public school system. Years later I enrolled in college to study Music Education at Howard University (Wash. D.C) where I had the pleasure of meeting Dizzy Gillespie who lectured and performed at a jazz seminar for a semester. That in itself was priceless, a motivating experience I’ll never forget.

Throughout college I would simultaneously perform with my band, doing one-nighters up and down the east coast. Later I would head west to California to finish my education at San JoseStateUniversity where I studied classical and jazz guitar while performing throughout the San Jose area in various nightclubs. Distracted by life, I choose to put music on the back burner for awhile. But with any “true” musician, that “backburner” is never far away. Fortunately a new genre of music would draw me back onto the scene, “Smooth Jazz”. Which brings us to my debut CD, “Eclectic Fusion”. This project has allowed me to come full circle, whereas Smooth Jazz allows me to explore all of my musical roots: Jazz, R&B, Funk, Latin, Rock and Fusion, while blending it with a contemporary, upbeat, Smooth Jazz sound. I like to think of it as blending the “old school” with the “new school”. I like to think of it as… “Eclectic Fusion”. Enjoy!

My Influences

Most often people ask me… who are your influences? Well, the list is infinite. Here’s a few of the legends who have walked across my musical soul.

Jimi Hendrix	Antonio Carlo Jobim	Weather Report
Terry Kath (Chicago)	Wes Montgomery	The Mahavishu Orchestra
Jimmy Page (Zepplin)	George Benson	Return to Forever
Carlos Santana	Pat Metheny	Chicago
Eric Clapton	Lee Ritenour	Blood Sweat & Tears
Al Dimeola	Mile Davis	Sly & the Family Stone
John McLaughlin	John Coltrane	James Brown
Chick Corea	Sergio Mendes	Sting
Cream	Earl Klugh	Mountain
The Beatles	Yes	George Duke
Jan Hammer	Daniel Epps Jr.	Stevie Wonder
Herbie Hancock	Norman Brown	Chris Botti
Jeff Lorber	Jaco Pastorius	All Jarreau
Bob James	Chris Botti	Chuck Loeb
David Sanborn	Jean-Luc Ponty	Jeff Lorber

(To name a few… The list will continue to grow… with past and present artists…)

Email Contact
For more info on purchasing CD’s or downloads, contact me at: JeromeEpps@hotmail.com

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