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, but currently performs around Atlanta in a whole variety of groups (as documented in the calendar below). His only regular gig is playing in the house band for the Five Spot Jam session every Tuesday night 10 pm. Please do not hesitate to send an email to ericfontainejazz@gmail.com if you would like to hire him as a solo artist, side man. His saxophones have been recorded on albums for several local Atlanta groups, and if you would like Eric to lay down some sax lines, or even a full sax horn section (bari sax, alto sax, tenor sax, soprano sax) for you next recording, feel free to call him.
You can see Eric Fontaine 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:
