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Alexander McCabe

Alexander McCabe is a saxophonist and composer. Originally from Boston, he has been performing in and around New York City since the 1980s. Alexander was a featured soloist with the Ray Charles Orchestra and was an original member, and toured with, the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban big band.

Alexander has played with/among others: George Coleman, Danny Aiello, Harold Mabern, Clifford Jordan, George Coleman Jr., Maurio Bauza, the Pointer Sisters and Nancie Banks. He's toured the UK and Europe, performing at the Edinburg and Cork festivals, the Pori Jazz Festival, the North Sea festival, The Vienne Music Festival and others

Cuba Bella

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Cuba Bella; Little Cutie; Eres Mi Todo; 22; No Hay Perdon; Siempre Ella; Ahora, Soy Tan Feliz; Cielito Lindo.

Freddie Hubbard & Alexander McCabe

by Joe Dimino
June 6, 2021

From a mainstay on the New York jazz scene, we begin the 702nd Episode of Neon Jazz with Alexander McCabe and a song off his 2020 album I'd Prefer. We spend the rest of this episode on music from Sean Nimmons, Audrey Foxx, Jeff Ellwood and Chance Hayden. Our final song on this hour of jazz ...

I'd Prefer

By Alexander McCabe

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: You Really Don’t Care; A Christmas Song; I’d Prefer; Together Again; Miss Maritza; Your Laugh; New York City; Out Front Blues.

This Is Not A Pipe

By Alexander McCabe

Label: Wamco Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: Miss Maritza; It Could Happen to You; Penny's Way; Emily; This Is Not A Pipe; Friday's Good; Daphne's Song; Minority.

Alexander McCabe / Paul Odeh: This Is Not A Pipe

by Bruce Lindsay
October 30, 2014

The title is, presumably, a nod to “Ceci, C'est Ne Pas Une Pipe," the phrase which Rene Magritte wrote on his famous painting La Trahison Des Images. The painting wasn't, of course, a pipe, just a painting of a pipe. This Is Not A Pipe isn't a pipe either--it isn't even a painting of a pipe. ...

Alexander McCabe / Paul Odeh: This Is Not A Pipe

by Dan McClenaghan
October 8, 2014

Are we having fun yet? Saxophonist Alexander McCabe and pianist Paul Odeh are, on a rollicking duo outing, This Is Not A Pipe. The frequent collaborators delve into a loose-jointed, roll and tumble examination of some jazz standards and McCabe originals. The word “seamless" is an often used--some would say over-used--as a description of ...

Alexander McCabe: Quiz

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 10, 2011

Il saxofonista e compositore Alexander McCabe torna a incidere un album in qualità di leader a cinque anni di distanza da The Round, dopo aver arricchito il proprio curriculum con la realizzazione di musica per serie TV, film e documentari. Nel nuovo Quiz McCabe si è scelto dei compagni di avventure jazzistiche di sicuro livello, come ...

Quiz

By Alexander McCabe

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2010
Track listing: Weezie's Waltz; Lonnegan; Kalido; Quiz; Good Morning Heartache; St. Pat; How Little We Know.

Alexander McCabe: Quiz

by Bruce Lindsay
October 3, 2010

Quiz, alto saxophonist Alexander McCabe's second album as leader, appears five years after his previous release, The Round (Wamco Music, 2005). McCabe has been a member of Ray Charles' Orchestra and ska band Mephiskapheles, as well as working with jazz greats like Joe Henderson and Ray Brown. He cites tenor giants Ben Webster, John Coltrane and ...