Biography

Trombonist/Composer/Arranger Erick Storckman has three albums to his credit as a leader: Scrapbook, Chuckle Factor, and Algorhythms (with the band ES2, co-led with keyboardist Eliot Smith).

He leads a septet and co-leads a quartet based in Germany, “The Storckman-Goetz Project." For over twenty years, he was the lead trombonist and a resident composer with the critically acclaimed Diane Moser’s Composers Big Band, and he performs with a variety of other bands throughout the NYC area.

His recording credits as a sideman include the Grammy-nominated “Aislado” by Papo Vasquez, dozens of albums with a variety of jazz and pop artists, and soundtracks for feature films and television commercials.

His most recent recordings include albums for jazz artists Peter Furlan, Jim Perry, Jens Wendleboe, and Eric Goletz.  He has performed in the orchestras for many Broadway shows, including Cats, The Producers, and Legally Blonde, and with a who’s-who list of legendary performers, including Aretha Franklin, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, The O’Jays, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Gino Vanelli, and BJ Thomas.

Erick’s septet has performed regularly over the years at jazz clubs and concerts in New York City and the surrounding area, on performing arts series in other regions of the U.S., and Erick has toured numerous times as both a soloist and band member across Europe and North America.

Erick is currently a member of The Water Gap Jazz Orchestra, The Analog Jazz Orchestra, The Peter Furlan Project, and The Afro-Peruvian New Trends Orchestra. Erick is also the bandleader and arranger of the monthly Jazz Vespers service at Christ Church in Warwick, New York.