The Eon Burchman Trio is:

Eon Burchman: Guitar
Jimmy Emerzian: Tenor Sax
Scott Graham: Acoustic Bass
Robert Keding: Drums/Percussion

Eon Burchman - Guitar

Eon Burchman started playing the guitar at the age of eight years old. His mother bought him a used guitar at a yard sale and started him with lessons. Eon grew up listening to Eddie Van Halen and other guitarists imitating their styles. In high school he played in the Jazz Band and he became fascinated with Fusion and Jazz based music. He attended Berklee College of music in Boston in 1989, where he studied the fundamentals of contemporary harmony and playing within the Jazz idiom. He also found inspiration from his peers, many of whom have become acclaimed musicians today.

Eon returned to Southern California to finish his bachelors degree in Music Performance on the classical guitar at the University of California, Irvine. There he studied withJames Newton, the award winning flautist and composer of the legendary Charles Mingus Orchestra. While at UCI he played at many local venues in Orange County gathering the top players to perform his original compositions and stretch out in the field of improvisation. Eon took a year to study abroad in 1993 at the University of Wollongong in Australia where he focused on Jazz and Modern Aboriginal music. His inspiration was accelerated by the enthusiam he met with his peers and the enegry charged music they composed and performed together.

In 1997 Eon Burchman began a masters degree studying at the University of Southern California in the Jazz department. He apprenticed under the guru of modern Jazz Guitar, Joe Diorio. In studying with Joe he was guided toward the discovery of his inner voice and bringing this out through the exploration in the subtleties of the Jazz Guitar . Eon has been performing with great performers in California such as John Bunk Gardner and Don Preston of Zappa's Mothers of Invention. He also plays with his former guitar teachers, Sid Jacobs, Larry Kunz and other masters of their instrument. Eon has toured around the world playing in the Middle East to Puerto Rico and is developing writing and recording music that is taking him to greater recognition.