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The First Milestone
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Stand Pat; #34 Was Sweetness; The First Milestone; The Towering Inferno; Night Song; Last Night When We Were Young; The Phineas Trane; I
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, the most fearsome young lion of them all, even looks the part on his “official” debut recording for Milestone Records — pensive, unsmiling, saxophone case in hand, primed and ready for another day of jungle warfare whose chief purpose is not so much to vanquish his musical peers as to earn their respect, something ...
The First Milestone
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Stand Pat, #34 Was Sweetness (for Walter Payton), The First Milestone, The Towering Inferno, Night Song, Last Night When We Were Young, The Phineas Trane, I
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by C. Andrew Hovan
For all intents and purposes, you might like to think of Eric Alexander as being a modern-day equivalent of Tina Brooks, a very neglected tenor man from the ‘60s who just happened to be around when such mega stars as Johnny Griffin, John Coltrane, and Sonny Rollins also happened to be walking on the planet. Alexander ...
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by Mark Corroto
Eric Alexander suffers from an ailment we’ll call Joe Lovano disease. Like his one time professor, Alexander so fluidly handles bebop patterns with relative ease that listeners dismiss his talent for casualness. His less-than-showman approach scores high with critics and fellow musicians but discovery by a wide audience requires style that has nothing to do with ...
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by David A. Orthmann
With the release of The First Milestone, Eric Alexander continues to make the transition from a young, hard-blowing tenor saxophonist to a mature soloist and leader of interesting small bands. Alexander is simply getting better at what he’s been doing quite well all along; that is, making high-energy music largely based on the spectrum of straight-ahead ...