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The First Milestone
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Stand Pat; #34 Was Sweetness; The First Milestone; The Towering Inferno; Night Song; Last Night When We Were Young; The Phineas Trane; I
Eric Alexander: The Second Milestone
by Jack Bowers
Let’s be honest; no Jazz reviewer can ever be completely objective because each of us has his or her favorite players, those musicians who, in our eyes, can do no wrong and whose next venture we look forward eagerly to hearing. When I was a young man (yes, I can remember that, albeit vaguely) Zoot Sims ...
Eric Alexander: The Second Milestone
by C. Andrew Hovan
If you insist on your jazz being loud and of the avant variety, then this disc will not be for you. If you’ve convinced yourself that the young guys are just revisiting the past, then this disc won’t be for you either. But, if you’re interested in serious mainstream jazz performed by some of the greatest ...
Eric Alexander: The First Milestone
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, the most fearsome young lion of them all, even looks the part on his “official” debut recording for Milestone Records — pensive, unsmiling, saxophone case in hand, primed and ready for another day of jungle warfare whose chief purpose is not so much to vanquish his musical peers as to earn their respect, something ...
David Hazeltine: Milwaukee's Best Becomes One of New York's Finest
by C. Andrew Hovan
“Writing is not an easy thing for me. I spend a lot of time getting it exactly how I want it."New York is a tough town. To be seen and heard among the scores of would-be jazz musicians you have to possess talent that is beyond the everyday and a voice that sets you ...
The First Milestone
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Stand Pat, #34 Was Sweetness (for Walter Payton), The First Milestone, The Towering Inferno, Night Song, Last Night When We Were Young, The Phineas Trane, I
Classmasters
By Melvin Rhyne
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2000
Track listing: Rhyne, Rhythm And Song; Watch What Happens; What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life; Stanley's Shuffle; Don't
Explain; Well You Needn't; Oriental Flower; Search For Peace; Like Sonny; What Is This Thing Called Love.
Excursions
By Jim Rotondi
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2000
Track listing: Shortcake; Little B’s Poem; Excursions; What Is There To Say; Angel Eyes; Little Karin; Jim’s Waltz; Fried Pies.
A Chat With Eric Alexander
by C. Andrew Hovan
One of the few “young lions" who is more influenced by Dexter Gordon and George Coleman than by John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander has come very far with his career in a short period of time. Following his first year of studying classical music at Indiana University as an alto player, Alexander ...
