24-02-2020 Music Frames
"The album is full of musical delights that have been crystallized so well and taken care of to perfection. Quality music where teamwork and a coherent result are paramount. Just as music should be and that is enjoyment!"
14-02-2020 Jazzism
"... jazz music that's "sometimes witty and absurd, sometimes romantic or funky, sometimes frantic and sometimes mean, loud and overwhelming", but often also very lyrical ..."
07-02-2020 Mania
"... music in which intuition, spontaneous ideas and exciting interaction play such a major role."
25-01-2020 Het Parool
"Party Animals does justice to its title with catchy music, which often makes the listener smile with pleasure."
14-12-2018 Jazzism
"Trumpet player Eric Vloeimans continues to amaze. After the successful adventures with trio Lavanter and the Holland Baroque ensemble, there is now a cross-pollination with pianist Juan Pablo Dobal. "Viento Zonda" breathes that sultry wind from Argentina."
14-12-2018 Jazzism
"Eric Vloeimans did it again with Viento Zonda! The trumpet player with the velvet tone continues to amaze."
01-12-2018 Jazz Bulletin
"Viento Zonda is a duo album on which we only hear the beautiful trumpet sound of Eric Vloeimans and the broadly blown piano playing of Dobal."
28-11-2018 Rootstime
"Vloeimans' music is like his name, fluent and full of melody and lyrical power, and at times velvety soft and whispering in tone."
22-11-2018 Jazzenzo
"Trumpet player Eric Vloeimans is the Sunday child of Dutch jazz. Everything he touches seems to change into musical gold, whether it is a project with film music, a baroque orchestra, world music or fusion. His latest shoot on the tribe is an artistic collaboration with the Argentinian pianist Juan Pablo Dobal, a piano wizard: 'Viento Zonda'."
09-11-2018 Mania
"Vloeimans' liquid and colorful trumpet sound eagerly curves around the warm piano registers, over and over again. And that is no different on Viento Zonda, the album he recorded with Juan Pablo Dobal."
07-11-2018 JazzNu
"Being on stage and being allowed to play and share my own songs is the greatest happiness that comes to me."
21-07-2018 Het Parool
"Eric Vloeimans, the man with the most beautiful trumpet sound in the world, is a busy guy."
01-05-2018 Heaven
"As the warm wind of the Levanter arriving from the east in Southern Europe makes the air sizzle, do the sounds of the trumpet of Eric Vloeimans come to us."
30-03-2018 Music Emotion
"With Levanter there is an album that shows a number of moody, mysterious and expectant tracks. They are a voyage of discovery through the home sound of the band members."
19-03-2018 JazzFlits
"Eric Vloeimans is a gifted trumpet player who rolls from one adventure to another, as long as people with feelings join him. At Hothouse Redbad he played together with the Syrian clarinet player Kinan Azmeh & Jeroen van Vliet."
19-03-2018 JazzFlits
"With 'Levanter' Eric Vloeimans shows us once again that music only has to do with emotion. Magnificent!"
26-02-2018 Trouw
"Levanter is one of Vloeimans' most impressive projects. In the first place because, he has to give everything next to virtuoso Azmeh. Secondly, because the band is very well balanced."
19-02-2018 Rootstime
"Again a top CD by Eric Vloeimans cum suis, this is going to score very high in my end-of-year list! If the trio is in your neighborhood, go there for sure; Eric's explanatory notes for the songs are enlightening."
02-02-2018 De Volkskrant
"This acoustic trio seeks the beauty in quiet, broadly stretched pieces, in which all three musicians take the space to profile themselves."
30-01-2018 Jazzenzo
"Levanter is yet another highlight from the work of Eric Vloeimans. In whatever genre you place the musician, from baroque to trance and from jazz to marines chapel, the Meryl Streep of Dutch music gets the prizes at the end. Impressive artistry, which guarantees full houses."
09-06-2017 Mania
"Playful, high quality and with funny additions like the use of the celestials. And of course the fenomenal and immediately recognizable whispering play of Eric Vloeimans"
01-06-2017 Music Emotion
"Fascinating, one of the best productions that Channel has recently put on the market and one of the top CDs of this month"
04-07-2015 Friesch Dagblad
"[..]Vloeimans has added both classical and folkloric elements to his jazz. His trio sounds flexible, adventurous and intimate." "
01-06-2015 Cadence Magazine
""Vloeimans's pure sound, a fine balance of dark and bright tonal qualities, enhances evocative pieces such as "Rosa Turbinata" and his own "Les Vapes." "
01-06-2015 Jazzthing
""... a bunch of open, easy accessible pieces that seem to have a conversation.""
01-06-2015 NRC Handelsblad
""Cinematic, compelling and once again a sunny sequel to Oliver's Cinema from 2013. More private, often melancholic tuned compositions of trumpet, cello and accordion."
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26-05-2015 Jazzflits
""Vloeimans does what he can do best; letting his sensitive music nesting deep in your soul. The last note of this piece is truly breathtaking." "
19-05-2015 Jazzenzo
""Oliver's Cinema continues to renew itself and keeps on suprising the listener.""
15-10-2014 all about jazz
""On the aural end, it should simply be noted that Eric Vloeimans' Oliver's Cinema creates beautiful and heartfelt music that touches the soul""
28-07-2014 Jazzflits
"Only three musicians, who where able to get two thousand people noiseless (Jazzflits over the concert of Oliver's Cinema on Norht Sea Jazz Festival 2014)"
22-04-2014 Luister
"The as always obviously singing trumpet of Vloeimans blends perfectly into the tight harmony and virtuosity of Calefax. A CD where every note tells where making music is really about."
16-04-2014 Music Emotion
"The musical collaboration gives a unusual synergy between jazz and traditional themes. Fascinating to listen to, especially in the mutlichannel form"
07-03-2014 Mania
"On "On The Spot" versatility is an asset on which the quintet and Vloeiman's, challenge and reinforce each other."
24-02-2014 Jazzflits
"The best of both worlds come together in eleven pieces. 'On the spot' is a wonderful fusion of classic tones and stylish improvisations."