Eric Lewis

There are at least Two artists by the name Eric Lewis If you are listening to the Rockjazz pianist change your tags to ELEW, this is official stage name this is what any officially released music should be tagged as for him. 1) Not without a struggle (and a measure of healthy angst), acclaimed pianist Eric Lewis is driving the next evolution of jazz -- forging new musical alloys of classic blue note scuttles, delicate improvisations and heady alt rock hooks.

If you are listening to the Rockjazz pianist change your tags to ELEW, this is official stage name this is what any officially released music should be tagged as for him.

1) Not without a struggle (and a measure of healthy angst), acclaimed pianist Eric Lewis is driving the next evolution of jazz -- forging new musical alloys of classic blue note scuttles, delicate improvisations and heady alt rock hooks. Now, with a roster of sold-out shows and a growing list of celebrity supporters, his iconoclastic arrangements are fast catching insular music communities' attention. His possessed, finger-bloodying performances have erased a few old taboos, too: Miles Davis and Linkin Park suddenly seem less dissimilar.

Before discovering this latent passion for pop and rock music, Lewis has been the must-watch up-and-comer on the jazz circuit, playing with Elvin Jones, Roy Hargrove, Cassandra Wilson and Wynton Marsalis before winning the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, the world's largest.

"His playing was playful but also serious to a point of being spiritual."

Wynton Marsalis in the New York Times