Eric has always been a musician and his first professional job was a summer season in 1949 playing drums with Eddy Mendoza at Margate. The band then went on the road as Eddy Mendoza and the Spivs, a comedy act, doing weeklong engagements up and down the country  at variety theatres.

Eric was the first person in East Kent to run Sunday Jazz Clubs and during that time was inspired by a meeting with Lionel Hampton to play Vibraphone. Within two years he was recommended to Norman Burns whose quintet he joined in 1953. They were on every big jazz event in London in those days including Jazz at the Philharmonic at the Gaumont Theatre with the likes of Oscar Petersen, Ella Fitzgerald and Gene Krupa.

Eric went on to form his own quartet, which had its first of many BBC Jazz Club broadcasts in 1959. He spent 3 years in America and studied music arranging at the Berklee School of Music in Boston. Playing trombone, bass guitar and electric piano, his career continued with spells working for P & O Cruises all over the world and whilst living in spain during the 1980s was a member of the Gerona Jazz Quartet and recorded with the famous Xavier Cugat Orchestra.

Although now officially retired, Eric’s long and varied career has seen him playing everything from a seafront bandstand to a Lionel Bart musical.