Jazz Articles about Eric Person

About Eric Person

Album Review

Curating the elders while clearing his own path, there is an urgent, blue ease to alto and soprano sax man Eric Person's resonance. As a matter of fact, there is a blue urgency to all of Person's compositions: His wiry lines have stories to tell and tell them he does, with a soulful urban sovereignty. Witness “Fallout," the second of the nine Person-penned that shape both the last and latest go-rounds for Extra Pressure. What is so cool about ...

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Eric Person: Rhythm Edge

Read "Rhythm Edge" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 29, 2024

Remixed, remastered, re-upped and re-amped from its original 2007 release, Rhythm Edge (CD Baby) immediately grabs you with its free-ranged, deep- rooted soulfulness and classic vigor. A gifted, Hudson Valley gentleman, multi-reedist Eric Person's serpentine and soaring tenor, alto, soprano, and flutes are veterans of many years with Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, the World Saxophone Quartet, Houston Person, (no relation) and a far-flung range of others (McCoy Tyner and Vernon Reid among them). Tightened by trimming ...

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Eric Person: Blue Vision

Read "Blue Vision" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2022

What are the odds that a Person who plays jazz saxophone would meet another Person who plays jazz saxophone, that they would become fast friends and find they were so musically compatible that they would not only perform together but decide to record an album featuring their two horns as the front line? Meet alto saxophonist Eric Person who in 2009 performed onstage for the first time with tenor saxophonist Houston Person, his senior by almost three decades but someone ...

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Eric Person: Blue Vision

Read "Blue Vision" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
January 27, 2022

A veteran of Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, and The World Saxophone Quartet, saxophonist Eric Person knows a sweet gig when he plays one. This well earned and hard earned knowledge unequivocally guarantees that Blue Vision, Person's soulful homage to late night organ trios, church, and sax legendHouston Person, is about as cool a blue session that you'll hear any time in the near future. Blue Vision has one wafting in and out of the daily routine then returning ...

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Eric Person: Thoughts on God

Read "Thoughts on God" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 26, 2012

Revered saxophonist Eric Person parlays God's message via the jazz vernacular, his spiritual ascension and unbridled fortitude equating to one of the finest modern jazz outings of 2012. Here, Person interlinks the Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus connection, branded by his personalization of the jazz idiom, teeming with impressive compositions and inspiring arrangements. Tinted by a little big band sound, bop, and jaunty soloing extravaganzas by the thirteen-piece ensemble, the musicians wind down a few notches on “"Never Far From ...

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Eric Person: Rhythm Edge

Read "Rhythm Edge" reviewed by Fred Bouchard

by Fred Bouchard
November 20, 2008

This fleet suite of 78 minutes fans out like a brilliant kaleidoscope of musical events, dovetailing thematic ideas and playful brief solos. After an elastic spooky turn on the Jerome Kern classic “Yesterday," a panoply of 13 originals leads down merry paths of ear-tweaking modes and startling arpeggiated lines at rattlingly good but often-shifting tempos. Rhythm Edge impresses with top-notch musicianship but always keeps you guessing. Who is this charmed and charming Person and what is his ...

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Chris Joris - Bob Stewart: Rainbow Country

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 27, 2007

La De Werf è una label indipendente belga, impostasi all’attenzione del pubblico europeo grazie a scelte coraggiose e lungimiranti. Jazz d’avanguardia, proposte orchestrali; rigorose commistioni di generi; meditati incontri tra i grandi nomi del jazz statunitense con i talenti locali. Sono queste le carte vincenti di un catalogo tutto da scoprire, i cui alfieri più noti sono Nathalie Loriers, Ben Sluijs e la Brussel Jazz Orchestra. Tra le nuove proposte della De Werf, si segnala la superba collaborazione discografica tra ...