flagging DC’s award-winning jazz trombonist, Eric Felten along w/ his swinging 10 piece band will be performing at Georgetown’s iconic jazz club, Blues Alley July 5 & 6. This show celebrates the 100th anniversary of Duke Ellington’s first recordings including the classics: Mood Indigo, It Don’t Mean a Think if it Ain’t Got that Swing, Cotton Club Stump, + many more. Check it out here and let us know if you’d like to chat with Eric about this extra special live performance of Duke’s earliest music.
Born in Arizona, where he learned trombone from his grandfather, Eric Felten moved to Washington, DC after college, where he has been a leader of jazz bands from duos to 30-piece jazz orchestras. He has been hailed as one of the best trombonists of his generation [Doug Ramsey, Rifftides jazz blog] and the Washington Post has called him “a crooner of the first order.” He has recorded with such jazz greats as Kenny Barron, Jimmy Knepper, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano, Randy Brecker, and Jimmy Cobb
