Eric Nemeyer

Eric Nemeyer - jazz artist, BMI composer, and publisher. Nemeyer is an accomplished performer on vibraphone and marimba (as well as drums and piano) and has appeared or recorded with influential jazz artists including Jon Faddis, Sonny Stitt, Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims, Jon Faddis, Sonny Fortune, Jimmy Heath, Curtis Fuller, Mickey Roker, Tyrone Brown, Sid Simmons, Sam Dockery, Joey DeFrancesco, Curtis Weaver, Donny McCaslin, Tony Monaco, Valery Ponomarev, Mark Elf, Byron Landham and others. Nemeyer is a winner of Downbeat Magazine’s "deebee" Recording Award, Category: Best Original Jazz Composition.

In 1997, Nemeyer created Jazz Improv® Magazine, a 200 plus page quarterly featuring interviews, reviews, solo transcriptions, songs, analyses, “How-to” and motivational articles along with a companion CD; website: www.jazzimprov.com). During the eight years of publication, he has built the magazine’s circulation to almost 40,000, including a dedicated paid subscriber base, and distribution at hundreds of leading book, record and music stores and chains, and newsstands, throughout the United States and in over 25 countries. National Public Radio’s (NPR's) Curious Listener's Guide To Jazz wrote: "This quarterly publication is hands down the best for the serious Jazz fan and professional musician.” In July 2005, Nemeyer will begin publishing a new 48-page monthly, Jazz Improv’s New York Jazz Guide & Directory, distributed all over the New York area, with a circulation of 15,000.

Nemeyer has composed and arranged hundreds of songs, with many published for jazz ensemble and studio orchestra. During the past 25 years, he has created, wrote and or edited over 125 music publications including books (Songwriting and The Creative Process, Where Have All The Flowers Gone - A Singer's Stories, Songs, Seeds, Robberies by Pete Seeger, This Is Rhythm, by Ella Jenkins), band arrangements and play-along book and record sets of music by Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, and Stevie Wonder. He has also published MusiCopyright Intelligence®, a newsletter about marketing copyrighted songs.

He has served as a Contributor to Downbeat and Audio Magazine. For over 20 years he also taught improvisation and arranging, privately, to players on all instruments and levels. He earned a Masters Degree in Jazz Studies from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

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