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Eddie Lewis is a Christian trumpet player who maintains a vibrant and stylistically diverse freelance career in Houston, TX. He has decades of experience playing jazz, classical, salsa, rhythm and blues, tejano, and klezmer music. He is a “first call” trumpet player for many of the local Houston bands. Eddie is a regular member of the David Caceres Band (jazz and dance music), and the Quail Valley Church Praise Band (contemporary Christian music). He is active as a studio player and one of the CDs he recorded in 2005, Chicanismo by Little Joe, won a Grammy in the Tejano category for that year. As a band leader, Eddie Lewis actively performs with his jazz combo called Living Rhythms and is the music director for Consort Immanuel, a musical arts organization which brings God centered music to the Southbelt community.
Eddie is a prolific composer with a growing library of compositions for various brass and jazz ensemble instrumentations. He also does arranging and copy work for local Houston bands including works for David Caceres, Mark Towns, Maria Williams, Fellowship of the Woodlands/The Woodlands Symphony, Tommy Lee Bradley, Bob Gallarza, and Dobbelganger. His works have been recorded by the Tom Borling BeBop Band, The Texas Brass, and the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra. He has been active as a music educator since 1982: teaching private lessons, giving clinics and master classes, participating in and presenting workshops, and teaching jazz improvisation as a class at Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts for five years.
To read what people have to say about Eddie Lewis, visit his Kudos page at www.eddielewis.com.
If you are looking for Eddie's books, they are available at his online music store at TigerMusicStore.com.
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