Eric Alexander - Straight Up

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 1992
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 64:34
Size: 148,0 MB
Art: Front + Back

(8:28)  1. Straight Up
(8:29)  2. What are you doing the rest of your life?
(7:54)  3. Be My Love
(8:00)  4. Blues Waltz
(8:06)  5. Laura
(7:25)  6. An Oscar For Treadwell
(8:12)  7. The End Of A Love Affair
(7:57)  8. Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander finished second in the 1991 Thelonious Monk sax competition, and shows why throughout these eight tracks. He has a full, bright, impressive tone, excellent facility and command of the instrument and is steadily developing a personal sound. While the tracks vary in quality, most are at worst competent and at best outstanding. Alexander is more interesting on uptempo tunes than ballads, where he concentrates more on melodic presentation than thematic exposition.~Ron Wynn http://www.allmusic.com/album/straight-up-mw0000621138

Personnel: Eric Alexander (tenor saxophone); Jim Rotondi (trumpet); Harold Mabern (piano); John Webber (bass); George Fludas (drums).

Straight Up

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