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Extra Pressure
By Eric Person
Label: Distinction
Released: 2026
Track listing: Extra Pressure; Personal Blues; Fallout; The Pull; There will be Better Days; Special
Someone; Perfection; Song of September; Constellations-Pictures of Orion; This
Devotion.
Eric Person: Extra Pressure
by Mike Jurkovic
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," ...
Eric Person: Thoughts on God
by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
Rhythm Edge
By Eric Person
Label: Distinction
Released: 2008
Track listing: Yesterdays; Reach; Pendulum Swing; The Multitudes; I'll Be Just Fine; Majestic Taurean Majesty; Rhythm Edge; 'A Word From Our Sponsor'; All Out In The Open; Supersonic; Sunset; Beauty; It's Time Again; Pretty Strange Love; Source Lore; Tyner Town.
Eric Person: Rhythm Edge
by Fred Bouchard
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 ...
Reflections: The Best of Collection
By Eric Person
Label: Distinction
Released: 2006
Track listing: Perfection; Mr.More or Less; Friends Again; When Morning Comes; Implications; Extra
Pressure; Reach!; Ancient Sun; K.T.; The Ringleader; Etc.; Next Love.
Eric Person: Reflections: The Best of Collection
by Florence Wetzel
Reflections is an enjoyable selection of saxophonist Eric Person's music from 1993 to 2003, culled from five CDs, plus three previously unreleased tracks recorded at the 1998 Texaco Jazz Festival. All the pieces showcase Person's impeccable chops, which combined with his warmth, intelligence, and wry humor, make him a very special talent indeed. There's ...
Eric Person And Meta-Four: Live at Big Sur
By Eric Person
Label: Distinction
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Leroy Downs Speaks 0:23
2. Magenta 9:16
3. Tiger in the Maze 9:09
4. Special Somone 9:10
5. Reach! 7:32
6. Announcement 0:31
7. Survival Instincts 12:41
8. I'll Be Just Fine 6:23
9. Issues, Yours Not Mine 11:55
Eric Person: Eric Person And Meta-Four: Live at Big Sur
by Russ Musto
Live concert recordings have always been a particularly effective medium for jazz, encouraging extended improvisation that can often be inhibited in the studio. When the cohesive working unit being recorded is Eric Person's Meta-Four, their performance can benefit from an enthusiastic audience. Such is the case with this enjoyable disc recorded last year at the seventh ...
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