Brief Bio:
Eric Fontaine has been working in Atlanta's jazz scene since 2003 with various groups playing such generes as funk, latin, avant-guarde, rock, hip-hop, but primarily jazz. Originally starting off on piano when he was 5, he was exposed to his father's jazz saxophone records when he was little and began playing alto saxophone in his school band at 10. In highschool, Eric was accepted to the 1999, 2000, and 2001 International Honor Band held in Berlin and Vienna, as well as other local bands such as the 2003 Georgia All-State Jazz Band and the 2003 Atlanta Youth Jazz Orchestra. Eric is a former student of the renowned Atlanta saxophonist Sam Skelton who he studied under in the Music Minor program at Georgia Tech. Eric has since performed around the world in such places as Shanghai, Beijing, and Seoul. After many years of freelancing and playing under other groups, Eric currently has his own jazz quartet which you can hear at the Studio 281 Jam Session every Thursday (located at 281 Peters St, Atlanta). The Eric Fontaine Quartet is available for gigs in and around the Atlanta area. Please do not hesitate to send an email to eric@ericfontainejazz.com if you would like to hire him or his band.
You can see me play at the events shown in the calendar below. Click on an event for more info.
Check out my live recordings at podcast.ericfontainejazz.com and subscribe to the xml RSS feed in iTunes. Check out my youtube channel youtube.com/ericfontainejazz.
Also, here are some various pages of various groups I play with: my standard jazz group The Eric Fontaine Quartet, my experimental group The Flickering Candle, my other experimental group Ascended Masters, and the house band for the Thursday night jam session Studio 281 Jam Session. Hear me play on jazz vocalist Laura Coyle's recording. I'm also a new member of The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra.
To book me for a gig:
