...and when you hear the music, you will be too.

Enoch Jamal Strickland was born in Gainesville and raised in Miami, Florida. His father, a former percussionist for the Fort Lauderdale Symphony Orchestra and a jazz
enthusiast, immersed E.J. and his twin brother, Marcus, with music from Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, The Jazz Crusaders, Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy
Hendricks. Since his arrival on the NYC jazz scene in 1997, he has performed and recorded with many stellar groups such as: The Russell Malone Quartet, The Marcus Strickland Quartet, Lizz Wright, The Vincent Herring Quartet/Quintet, Myron Walden, and Freddie Hubbard and the New Jazz Composer’s Octet.