Eric Alexander is the rarest type of jazz artists: one who garners critical acclaim from every corner, while firmly establishing his own voice within the illustrious bop-based jazz tradition. He has trained and toughed it out with some of the best musicians in the business, and is a player possessing both accessibility without condescension and intelligence without alienation. For his latest HighNote release, Alexander is once again in the Rudy Van Gelder studio with his long-time collaborators Harold Mabern, Joe Farnsworth and Nat Reeves for a program of originals, standards and not-so-standards delivered with the prerequisite imagination and daring that has earned Eric Alexander a place among the elite jazzmen of today.
With ERIC ALEXANDER - tenor saxophone; Harold Mabern - piano;
Nat Reeves - bass; Joe Farnsworth - drums
Tracks: Nomor Senterbress; She's Out of My Life; Footsteps; Charade; Don't Misunderstand; Remix Blues; Don't Follow the Crowd; Cavatina
Nomor Senterbress
Footsteps
Don't Misunderstand
Cavatina from "The Deer Hunter" |