Eric Person Quintet
About This Event
Alto and soprano saxophonist Eric Person leads his quintet at Smalls Jazz Club, drawing on nearly four decades of New York experience. A leader of Meta-Four who has played with McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Donald Byrd, Chico Hamilton and the World Saxophone Quartet, Person's work ranges from solo pieces and quartets to electric ensembles and big band, often balancing open-ended, free-jazz language with a clear melodic throughline.
About the Artists
Eric Person
Eric Person is a New York–based alto and soprano saxophonist who has worked steadily in the city since arriving in 1982. A leader of the group Meta-Four, he has shared bandstands and sessions with McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Donald Byrd, Chico Hamilton, and the World Saxophone Quartet, as well as artists from rock and funk worlds including Vernon Reid and Bootsy Collins.
Eric Person Quintet
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.