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Eric Allison: After Hours
by Robert Spencer
Remember Bob Weinstock? He ran Prestige Records in the 1950's and 1960's: Home of Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk (before an acrimonious parting of the ways), Eric Dolphy, and all the rest. Bob Weinstock, along with Orrin Keepnews at Riverside and Alfred Lion at Blue Note, brought modern jazz to the world. Now he's living in South Florida, and Prestige (along with Riverside, Milestone, Contemporary, and who knows what else) is just another great Fifties jazz label ...
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by Jack Bowers
After Hours was a mega-hit for trumpeter Erskine Hawkins' orchestra in the '40s, and this second release on Contemporary by reedman Eric Allison is dedicated to the memory of Hawkins and his pianist, Avery Parrish, who wrote After Hours. Further than that, the session embodies the sort of late-night mood that once permeated the club scene from coast to coast. Allison's rawboned tenor saxophone is comfortably at home in that groove, as are Lonnie Smith's soulful piano and Hammond B-3 ...
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by Douglas Payne
for using someone else's sound, David (Newman) and Hank (Crawford) would be billionaires." If so, reed man Eric Allison would be paying dues. He'd also be paying the estates of Gene Ammons, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and King Curtis too. Does that leave After Hours without merit? Probably not. Allison sounds fine and his program is a well-played mix of jazz that swings with blues, gospel and juke-joint groove. Like fellow South Florida residents Jesse Jones, Turk Mauro (who both appear ...
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