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Eric Person

Eric Person is setting a new standard in sound. For over twenty years, Eric has been committed to composing, recording and performing contemporary American music. He plays the alto and soprano saxophones and flute and is featured as a leader and sideman on more than 30 recordings. Eric studied at the St. Louis Conservatory of Music and has been active in the New York and international jazz scene for decades. His broad range of experience with Dave Holland, McCoy Tyner, Chico Hamilton, Ronald Shannon Jackson, the World Saxophone Quartet, and John Hicks, have all contributed greatly to his mature alto and soprano sound and his skills as an arranger and composer. After many years of making a name for himself, bassist Dave Holland asked Eric to join his band in the fall of 1993, this was by far Person's most challenging musical experience

Under the Porch

By Bright Dog Red

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2022

Blue Vision

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blue Vision; Dear Old Stockholm; Lover Man; Soul Saturation; Old Hat Feathers; Geri; No Doubt True Dat.

Ron Miles & Steven Bernstein

by Joe Dimino
March 27, 2022

From the very talented jazz veteran Steven Bernstein with his Millenial Territory Orchestra, we start the 744th Episode of Neon Jazz. From there, we hear his hero in Duke Ellington. We listen to new music from jazz veterans like Michael Weiss, Farzin Farhadi, Eric Person and Bernie Senensky. Finally, we salute the late-great Ron Miles who ...

Eric Person: Blue Vision

by Jack Bowers
February 1, 2022

What are the odds that a Person who plays jazz saxophone would meet another Person who plays jazz saxophone, that they would become fast friends and find they were so musically compatible that they would not only perform together but decide to record an album featuring their two horns as the front line? Meet alto saxophonist ...

Eric Person: Blue Vision

by Mike Jurkovic
January 27, 2022

A veteran of Chico Hamilton, Dave Holland, and The World Saxophone Quartet, saxophonist Eric Person knows a sweet gig when he plays one. This well earned and hard earned knowledge unequivocally guarantees that Blue Vision, Person's soulful homage to late night organ trios, church, and sax legendHouston Person, is about as cool a blue session that ...

In Vivo

By Joe Pignato

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. To Be Born Into 12:25 2. We Ain’t Gotta 07:52 3. Under the Porch 04:50 4. On the Way Out 10:20 5. Since Yesterday 11:31 6. I Swear 10:42

Vivid Landscapes

By Brian Kastan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Vivid Landscape 05:33 2. Sandstone Canyon 06:21 3. Chimney Mountain 04:08 4. Long Path 01:58 5. Red Rocks 05:17 6. Treadway 05:49 7. Badlands 03:08 8. Cliffs of Mt Zion 04:12 9. Woolf Jaw 04:33 10. Cadillac Mountain 04:11 buy track 11. Bowling Rocks 06:56 12. The Gothics 02:04

Somethin' Comes Along

By Joe Pignato

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2020

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Six St. Louis saxophonists you should know

June 25, 2017

When talk turns to saxophonists from St. Louis, many knowledgeable music fans will associate our city with David Sanborn and World Saxophone Quartet founding members Hamiet Bluiett, Oliver Lake and Julius Hemphill. Sanborn, Bluiett, and Lake all grew up in this area, and Hemphill, though not a native, made an important contribution to the Black Artists ...