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Eric Alexander: Up, Over & Out

In August 1993, “Delmark” label released “Up, Over & Out”, the third Eric Alexander album.

Personnel:

  • Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone
  • Harold Mabern – piano
  • John Ore – bass
  • Joe Farnsworth – drums

Track listing:

  1. Up, Over & Out – Hank Mobley
  2. The Nearness of You – Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington
  3. Eronel – Thelonious Monk
  4. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers
  5. Flying Fish – Cecil Payne
  6. Blues for Mabe – Harold Mabern
  7. I Remember Clifford – Benny Golson
  8. Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are – Thelonious Monk

Eric Alexander: The Real Thing

On April 2, 2015, “High Note” label released “The Real Thing”, the 38th Eric Alexander album. It was recorded in 2014, at “Van Gelder Studio” in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and was produced by Eric Alexander.

Personnel:

  • Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone
  • Pat Martino – guitar
  • Harold Mabern – piano
  • John Webber – bass
  • Joe Farnsworth – drums
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer, mixing, mastering
  • Maureen Sickler – engineer assistant
  • Christopher Drukker – design, session photography
  • Jimmy Katz – Eric Alexander photography
  • Joe Fields – executive producer

Track listing:

All tracks by Eric Alexander except where noted.

  1. The Real Thing
  2. Pure Pat
  3. Summertime – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
  4. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes – Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin
  5. Little Boat – Ronaldo Bôscoli, Roberto Menescal
  6. For George and Trane
  7. Sleep Warm – Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Lew Spence
  8. The Chief – Harold Mabern

Benny Golson: One Day, Forever

On February 27, 2001, “Arkadia Jazz” label released “One Day, Forever”, the 31st Benny Golson album. It was recorded in November 1996, September 1999 and October 2000, at “Sandhausen Studios” in Germany, “Avatar Studios” and “Patrych Recording”  in New York, “39th Street Music”  in New York City, and was produced by Bob Karcy.

Personnel:

  • Benny Golson – tenor saxophone, arranger, conductor
  • Shirley Horn – vocals
  • Art Farmer – trumpet
  • Curtis Fuller – trombone
  • Robert Carlisle, John Clark – French horn
  • Elizabeth Mann – flute
  • Gerard Reuter – oboe
  • Mulgrew Miller – piano
  • Geoff Keezer – piano
  • Lara Downes – piano
  • Bill Mays – keyboards
  • Clay Ruede, David Heiss, Diane Barere, Eliana Mendoza, Erik Friedlander, Eugene Moye, Frederick Zlotkin, Jeanne Leblanc, Joseph Kimura, Lanny Paykin, Maxine Neuman, Richard Locker – cello
  • Ron Carter – bass
  • Dwayne Burno – bass
  • Joe Farnsworth – drums
  • Carl Allen – drums
  • Dennis Wall – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Benny Golson

  1. One Day, Forever (I Remember Miles)
  2. Blue Walk
  3. Killer Joe
  4. Are You Real?
  5. Sad to Say
  6. Out of the Past
  7. Blues Alley
  8. Along Came Betty
  9. On Gossamer Wings