Eric Person Quartet
About This Event
Saxophonist Eric Person brings his quartet to The Django, drawing on nearly forty years as a New York musician. An alto and soprano player and leader of Meta-Four, Person has performed and recorded with McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Vernon Reid and the World Saxophone Quartet; his work spans solo, quartet, electric ensemble and big band settings.
About the Artists
Eric Person
Eric Person is an American alto and soprano saxophone player and leader of Meta-Four. Since moving to New York City in 1982, Person has performed and recorded with jazz masters McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Houston Person, Donald Byrd, Chico Hamilton, John Hicks and the World Saxophone Quartet, and rock, funk and world music figures like Vernon Reid, Ben Harper, Ofra Haza and Bootsy Collins.
Eric Person Quartet
About His work as a leader is stylistically diverse and intrepid, presenting solo works, music for jazz quartet, duo for sax/drum, an electric ensemble and big band. Over his nearly forty years as a musician in New York, Person has had the good fortune to perform with the vanguard of the jazz world namely McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland Wallace Roney, and cutting edge artists such as Vernon Reid, Ronald Shannon Jackson, and the World Saxophone Quartet.