Eddie Barbash

Tour

February 21st, 2025 - Springfield, MO
Missouri State University Jazz Fest Guest Clinician

​March 8th, 2025 - Aiken, SC
Joye in Aiken with KASA Quartet

April 4th, 2025 - Durham, NH
University Of New Hampshire with Giacomo Smith​

April 5th, 2025 - Winona, MN
Cotter Jazz Festival with Cory Wong

May 1st-3rd, 2025 - Miramar Beach, FL
Tedeschi Trucks Band Sun, Sand, and Soul Beach Weekend with Cory Wong

June 13th-15th, 2025 - Swanzey, NH
Northlands Music and Arts Festival with Cory Wong

June 17th, 2025 - Osaka, Japan
Namba Hatch with Cory Wong

June 18th, 2025 - Nagoya, Japan
Diamond Hall with Cory Wong 

June 20th, 2025 - Tokyo, Japan
​Pit with Cory Wong

June 21st, 2025 - Tokyo, Japan
Pit with Cory Wong

June 29th, 2025 - Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga Jazz Festival with Cory Wong

​July 11th, 2025 - Brno, South Moravian Region
Groove Brno Festival with Cory Wong
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August 10th-16th - Boston, MA
On faculty at Silk Road's Global Musician Workshop

Bio

Hailed by Jon Batiste as "one of the world’s most important saxophonists," Eddie Barbash was a founding member of the house band for the Late Show With Stephen Colbert and currently tours the world with Cory Wong and the Wongnotes. His unmistakable sound is featured on the Oscar and Grammy-winning soundtrack of Soul. He has performed at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Madison Square Garden to the Village Vanguard and has headlined both the Newport Jazz and Folk Festivals, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and the Umbria Jazz Festival. Barbash's versatile sound has led him to collaborate with musicians in many styles. At 18 he joined the sextet of legendary jazz drummer Chico Hamilton and the quintet of emerging jazz star Jon Batiste. In his 20's he fell in love with American traditional music and began touring with bluegrass phenom Sierra Hull. He's a frequent guest with funk band Vulfpeck and indie rocker Sam Evian. In 2016 he performed a duet on national TV with Yo-Yo Ma and in 2024 he performed the world premier of "Songs Of Nature," a concerto for saxophone and choir by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec.
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Eddie has released 4 albums: "For Murray and Lillian", a collection of crooning melodies dedicated to his late grandparents, arranged by Kyle Athayde for an octet of four strings and jazz quartet; "Eddie Barbash Live Parts 1-4", a selection of the best performances of 6 years of leading bands in NYC; and most recently "Live With Jim, Joe, and Dave", a snapshot of one night of improvised music in Brooklyn, recorded directly to tape in one of the borough's hippest local haunts. 
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Eddie was born in West Islip, NY and was raised in Oaxaca, Mexico, Atlanta, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He lives in Nashville.