“The more flexible you are, the more you work—that’s the way it’s done down here,” saxophonist Eric Traub once said. He lived his life by those words, adeptly blowing modern and traditional jazz, R&B, blues and soul, as well as performing what he described as “tuxedo jobs”—shows, weddings and conventions. Eric Traub, who grew up in Buffalo, New York and landed in New Orleans in 1982, died on Friday, February 15, 2019 at the age of 72.