Eric Kloss

Eric Kloss, a talented high-powered altoist with an open mind toward funk and certain aspects of pop music, recorded a long series of fine albums for Prestige and Muse from the mid-'60s into the late '70s. Blind since birth, Kloss began playing professionally in Pittsburgh in the early '60s. He worked with <a href="spotify:artist:4DlMMgnldzX6OkCskmeGKz">Pat Martino</a> in 1965, the same year he started recording as a 16-year-old for Prestige. Through the years, Kloss used such players on his records as <a href="spotify:artist:4DlMMgnldzX6OkCskmeGKz">Martino</a>, organist <a href="spotify:artist:6SRSZ1BTxmlbfdHqIiEgIO">Don Patterson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7pZNp3BIssAHQ9jJZssq3Y">Jaki Byard</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6Xktfsmu8Tlg3071prbJej">Richard Davis</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:023XpyUykQOrpzb9D5uoJQ">Alan Dawson</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7DCTgrI6aDK3nBRZm5RUKT">Cedar Walton</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4QdSwSV5qjkyvg0NHxTSxu">Jimmy Owens</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3LvX4UVIfEjsQVqrbBToQ3">Kenny Barron</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7rDjbKTLlpNYJRWMm7QVxU">Jack DeJohnette</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:3ZppcUE7tHnE6SzUR4ipSy">Booker Ervin</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5olDKSsFhhmwh8UCWwKtpq">Chick Corea</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:1Cy6swbBmTbhfL00cEc7IC">Barry Miles</a>, in addition to collaborations with <a href="spotify:artist:6j60GJXKhcNX1XqzuP8TXe">Richie Cole</a> and duets with <a href="spotify:artist:59bgiWWmCiIfBkzZ8URC1Q">Gil Goldstein</a>. But Eric Kloss seemed to disappear after his 1981 Omnisound album and has not been heard from by the jazz world in quite some time. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi