Eric Devey Music
Music
The Year without a Summer
Eric's 2021 debut solo album, The Year without A Summer narrates Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in a six part programmatic work featuring original lyrics, and influences from jazz, flamenco, Afro-Cuban, and progressive rock.
Heartless Things
Heartless Things is the 2024 release of acoustic singer/songwriter and flautist Rachel Sumner. Eric's arranging for trumpet can be heard on "So What", "Radium Girls (Curie Eleison)", and "Sometimes Sweetie", the second of which won the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest folk category, and was nominated for 2024 Grammy Roots/Folk Song of the Year.
Fiesta at Caroga (En Vivo)
Eric can be heard on The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective's 2024 release Fiesta at Caroga (En Vivo). Recorded live at the Caroga Lake Music Festival in Upstate New York, this album appeared on JazzWeek's top 50 jazz albums 2024 and #1 on RootsMusicReport 2024.
Thank You, Come Again
Big Blue Ox was an instrumental funk band not unlike Lettuce, Galactic, or The Budos Band. It was Eric's primary creative project while living and working in Salt Lake City. His composition "Bunyan" was originally commissioned by the Utah Valley University modern dance studio for one of their performances. His solo features can also be heard on "Monkey Do" and "Dirt Inya Soup".