Eric Kloss is an American jazz

Jazz

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 saxophonist.

Blind since birth, Kloss first played professionally in the Pittsburgh area in the 1960s, and played with Pat Martino

Pat Martino

Pat Martino is an Italian-American jazz guitarist and composer within the post bop, fusion, mainstream jazz, soul jazz and hard bop idioms.-Biography:...

 in 1965; later that year he made his first recordings at age 16 for Prestige Records

Prestige Records

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. He continued to release on Prestige and Muse

Muse Records

Muse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s...

 through the late 1970s, playing with Don Patterson

Don Patterson (organist)

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, Jaki Byard

Jaki Byard

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, Richard Davis, Alan Dawson

Alan Dawson

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, Cedar Walton

Cedar Walton

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, Jimmy Owens

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, Kenny Barron

Kenny Barron

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, Jack DeJohnette

Jack DeJohnette

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, Booker Ervin

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, Chick Corea

Chick Corea

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, Barry Miles (musician)

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, Terry Silverlight

Terry Silverlight

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, Richie Cole

Richie Cole (musician)

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, and Gil Goldstein

Gil Goldstein

Gil Goldstein is American jazz pianist and synthesizer player who started on the accordion.He began studying accordion at age 5, but later moved on to cello and piano. He studied at the Berklee College of Music and by 1973 was working with Pat Martino, Lee Konitz, and others. He started with the...

.

Kloss has recorded sparsely since 1981.

Discography

• Introducing Eric Kloss (Prestige Records
  Prestige Records
  Prestige Records was a jazz record label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock. The company was located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, New Jersey, and recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them under the names of several...
  
  , 1965)
• Love and All That Jazz (Prestige, 1966)
• Grits and Gravy (Prestige, 1966)
• First Class Kloss! (Prestige, 1967)
• Life Force (Prestige, 1967)
• We're Goin' Up (Prestige, 1967)
• Sky Shadows (Prestige, 1968)
• In the Land of the Giants (Prestige, 1969)
• Eric Kloss & the Rhythm Section (Prestige, 1969)
• To Hear Is to See! (Prestige, 1969)
• Consciousness! (Prestige, 1970)
• Doors (Cobblestone Records
  Cobblestone Records
  Cobblestone Records was an American jazz record label.Cobblestone had two successive incarnations. The early one was in 1968-69 as a singles label, subsidiary of Buddah Records...
  
  , 1972)
• One, Two, Free (Muse Records
  Muse Records
  Muse Records was an American record label which released jazz and blues music.Muse was founded in the early 1970s by Joe Fields, who had previously worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s...
  
  , 1972)
• Essence (Muse, 1973)
• Bodies' Warmth (Muse, 1975)
• Battle of the Saxes (Muse, 1976)
• Together (Muse, 1976)
• Now (Muse, 1978)
• Celebration (Muse, 1979)
• Sharing (Omnisound, 1981)
• Sweet Connections (1999, recorded 1979)