Eric Person Quartet
About This Event
Eric Person, a New York–based alto and soprano saxophonist who has worked steadily in the city since 1982, brings his quartet to The Django. He balances open-ended free-jazz language with a clear melodic throughline; as a leader he has led solo projects, quartets, electric ensembles and big bands and has performed with McCoy Tyner, Dave Holland, Donald Byrd, Chico Hamilton, Vernon Reid and Bootsy Collins.
About the Artists
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.
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.