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Eric Dickey, born and raised in Northwest Ohio, has worked for the last 30 years as a classical, jazz, broadway, and church musician and as a composer, director, producer, arranger, educator, and recording artist throughout the Midwest and in 13 countries around the world.

Eric has performed with jazz greats and entertainers, including Clark Terry, Al Jareau, Jon Hendricks, Terrance Blanchard, Peter Erskine, Rich Little, and Phyllis Diller.

All About Jazz (allaboutjazz.com) had this to say about Eric and his Toledo Jazz Orchestra colleagues' second album Groovin':

While Toledo isn’t usually thought of as a hotbed of contemporary Jazz, they must be doing something right in that northwestern Ohio city on the shores of Lake Erie, as Groovin’ is the second outstanding album in the last year or two by the highly impressive community–based Toledo Jazz Orchestra. About that earlier endeavor, Out of Nowhere, we wrote: “. . .the TJO romps spryly through a program of time–tested standards and Jazz originals with the breathless enthusiasm of a teenager on his / her first date. . . .Every section is in synch, the trumpets boast power to spare, trombones and reeds swing audaciously, and the sure–handed rhythm section drives the band adamantly forward, quickly adding more fuel whenever the temperature needs tweaking.” The same applies here with all but one of the baker’s dozen selections (Tom Garling’s razzle–dazzle finale, “You Got It”) composed and / or arranged by members of the orchestra including music director Dave Melle.