Saxophonist Eric Alexander headlined the weekend of March 21-24, 2024, at the legendary Jazz Showcase in Chicago with an A-list of musicians including Mike LeDonne on piano, George Fludas on drums and ...

Prime Time, another tour de force from tenor saxophone standout Eric Alexander, is one of those two-for-one packages that includes a DVD and CD so one can see as well as hear Alexander's quartet at ...

Tenor sax player Eric Alexander generated a fair amount of hoopla when he came out of nowhere (i.e., Chicago before the current jazz revival) to place second in the 1991 Thelonious Monk competition.

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“In the company of a sharp quintet featuring the saxophonist James Carter, Turre has the perfect platform to strut his multifarious stuff.” —The New Yorker “Blake is a drummer of volcanic power and ...

These impressive live sessions by tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Nat Reeves and drummer Joe Farnsworth come from a 1999 gig at the Keynote in Tokyo. Mabern's furious ...

Four months after opening their new expanded room, Smoke Jazz & Supper Club co-owners Paul Stache and wife Molly Sparrow Johnson reinstituted their annual Coltrane festival with a show dubbed ...

The May-December collaboration between tenor saxist Eric Alexander and veteran pianist Harold Mabern, 32 years his senior, began more than a dozen years ago, and it remains one of the most fruitful ...

Eric Alexander has become one of the premier saxophonists of his generation since competing in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition in 1991. From his sideman days ...