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Jovan Alexandre Launches Weekly NYC Jazz Residency At The Music Room At Carroll Place

Source: Sacks and Co.
January 31, 2015

SETS AT 10PM AND MIDNIGHT EVERY THURSDAY BEGINNING JANUARY 29 DEBUT ALBUM COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OUT FEBRUARY 24 “Jovan Alexandre is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the tenor saxophone— conceptually—in a long time. A gifted composer, his personal sound can seem variously molten and sharp-cornered within the same tune, sometimes almost within the same phrase. There’s an understated, almost implied, restlessness in his solos… He has that rare originality everyone strives for, and he definitely has ...

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Recording

Jovan Alexandre’s Debut Album Collective Consciousness Out February 24

Source: Erika Santucci
January 23, 2015

“Jovan Alexandre is one of the most exciting new voices to emerge on the tenor saxophone—conceptually—in a long time. A gifted composer, his personal sound can seem variously molten and sharp-cornered within the same tune, sometimes almost within the same phrase. There’s an understated, almost implied, restlessness in his solos… He has that rare originality everyone strives for, and he definitely has a promising future in front of him.” —René McLean Tenor saxophonist Jovan Alexandre’s debut album, Collective Consciousness, is ...

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