About
Eric
Producer
. Songwriter
Eric Copeland has been
playing piano, writing songs, and making recordings of his
music since he was 13. In his college years, he became interested
in jazz, heavily influenced by the vocal jazz and pop of Al
Jarreau, the keyboard and synthesizer work of Jeff Lorber,
and other artists like Gino Vanelli, Manhattan Transfer, and
Bruce Hornsby. By his twenties Eric was also adding modern
jazz groups like the Yellowjackets, Steps Ahead, Pat Metheny,
and Flim and the BBs. Vocal jazz music also figured in heavily
with Michael Franks and Take 6.
His interest in Christian
music, as well as his keyboard programming and production
skills, brought a natural role as producer, and Eric has now
served in this role on hundreds of albums, EPs, and singles
for artists across the US and the world.
But his love of jazz,
and especially writing and arranging his own unique vision
of jazz has brought him full circle with his
current release, "The Jazz in Me".