Eric M. Bell is a music journalist and jazz guitarist. He is a featured contributing columnist at JamBase, the world's leading source of live music and concert information. His blog, Fukuoka Policeman, takes a new turn on the traditional music interview, substituting the art and science of the craft for its usual celebrity. Mr. Bell’s influences have been many: Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson, The New Yorker and Playboy, Miles Davis and Trey Anastasio and, Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. Besides working as a principal at a boutique private equity and investment banking firm, his other interests include contemporary art, existentialist philosophy, US National Parks, Fellini films, and hiking in Colorado’s High Country. He is a native Texan and lives in San Antonio.