Eric Skye Acoustic Groove Trio releases album

What do you get when you take a Pacific Northwest jazz guitarist known for his intimate, uncluttered solo acoustic guitar arrangements, add a New York City, British invasion influenced drummer nourished on careful feedings of American funk, and a virtuoso upright jazz bassist who also plays in a symphony and tours with Zappa alum? The new Eric Skye Acoustic Groove Trio CD, Slow Moving Dog.

All original bluesy soul jazz grooves played on a little ought size acoustic steelstring guitar.
Recorded live in the studio. No overdubs, no gooey reverbs, etc... just three guys having a ball two mornings in July in a great loft space in downtown Portland, listening to each other, zigging and zagging, grooving.

Eric Skye has two solo acoustic jazz guitar releases, Acoustic Jazz Guitar Solos and For Lulu, both of which garnered national and international attention and airplay. His music has been on National Public Radio and Public Radio International. He has been featured in magazines including Guitar Player, Jazziz, Acoustic Guitar, Jazz Improv, and 20th Century Guitar. He has performed on numerous live radio performance broadcasts. He has written and recorded music for public television, and is an artist endorser for the Santa Cruz Guitar Company.

In addition to playing in three different trios and a duo with Eric Skye, Brian Casey is also a founding member of Pojama People -playing the music of Frank Zappa. He is an active member of the Art Resnick Trio, Trio de Janiero, Barrio Latino, Opera Theater Oregon, and the Willamette Falls Symphony.

Brian has also played with Pink Martini, Mel Brown, and members of Tin Hat Trio.

Bruce Robertson started playing drums the third grade, as he says, “forty freakin' years ago!” He studied at the infamous Drummers Collective in Manhattan in 1980's while earning an Industrial Design degree from the Pratt Institute, completing an audio engineering certificate from IAR in New York City, and playing in the pop band One Fish Two Fish. Clearly a renaissance man.

Bruce worked as engineer at several big New York studios for fifteen years before moving to Portland and opening Blue Dog Recording where he has recorded and added drums to a huge list of bands from the thriving Northwest music scene.