Upcoming Concert - Yoshi's SF

Eric Muhler Trio & Guests In Concert

Yoshi’s Jazz Club - SF
Wednesday May 23rd, 2012
8pm. $22

1330 Filmore St. at Eddy, San Francisco

Tickets available at Yoshis.com

Featuring

Marc Van Wageningen - Electric Bass
Phil Hawkins - Drums
Dr. Susan Day - Flute
Zoë Muhler and Matthew Wickett - Dance

After successfully enduring spinal fusion surgery I want to give back to California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) and the Institute of Health and Healing (IHH) with another benefit show at Yoshi’s SF. I will donate 10% of my share of the ticket and CD sales to these two great medical institutions.

My guests will include my daughter Zoë Muhler and her dance partner Matthew Wicket doing original choreography to hip-hop classical jazz that Zoë and I composed specifically for this show. I’m also happy to announce that CPMC ophthalmologist Susan Day will be joining us to play flute for a guest spot. The band is stellar - featuring Marc Van Wageningen on electric bass, and Phil Hawkins an drums and steel pans. Please join us to perform the most important role in the band - THE AUDIENCE - for this evening of original music, much of which I’ve written since my latest recuperation. This show will be both recorded and videoed and will feature audience reaction, so come be a part of it!

Yoshi’s is happy to reserve seating for groups of ten or more.
Please contact Yoshi’s box office to arrange for tickets and seating and check their web site for full seating policies and practices.

Photo: by Elton Lobas

New Music Works

Since healing from spinal fusion surgery and throat cancer I’ve been inspired to start writing new music, in new styles, and to rediscover my classical piano music and blues roots. Check out these work-in-progress recordings and see and hear what I’ve been up to.

My Classical Side

One of the “miracles” of my recuperation has been the opportunity to rediscover my musical roots in both classical music and the blues. In Berkeley, California, my childhood teacher, Jolan Kanyuk, taught Liszt technique from the Budapest Conservatory and steeped me in Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Debussey, Liszt, and many others. Relearning this repertoire has been a thrill and a reminder that it’s all music, no matter the style. It all gets improvised in the brain first, written later, and gives the performer a marvelous high-dive platform to jump off into the joys of improvisation.