Houston Person Songography

High Note Records, founded by the former owners of Muse Records, has retained some of the defunct label's more talented performers, one of them being Houston Person. Appearing as a leader, sideman, or guest on well over 100 recordings, Person ...

A LITTLE HOUSTON ON THE SIDE contains tracks recorded in the 1970's for Muse Records, in which Person is a producer, sideman, or co-leader with other performers. This budget disc from the 32 Jazz label is aptly titled A Little Houston ...

Houston Person has never been flashy or particularly innovative on the tenor saxophone, following the Ben Webster/Gene Ammons/Illinois Jacquet school of accessible bop jazz rather than the John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins school of reaching for the creative horizon. He's recorded over ...

Track Listing: Santa Baby; Our First Christmas; Christmas Love Song; Blue Christmas; It's Christmas Time Baby; Medley; Jingle Bells; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Merry Christmas Baby; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?; Happy Hanukah My Friend;

Recorded at M & I Recording Studios, New York, New York on March 24, 2000. Includes liner notes by Owen Cordle. Personnel: Houston Person (tenor saxophone); Etta Jones (vocals); Stan Hope (piano); Chip White (drums). Liner Note Author: Owen Cordle. Recording information: M ...

Houston Person is an excellent, underrated tenor saxophonist with a full, rich tone and a knack for well-constructed, tasteful, but never boring solos. That said, he's occasionally guilty of giving the people what they want, releasing smooth and conservative albums ...

While he's never been an innovator, saxophonist Houston Person is one of the players maintaining the grand tradition of the huge-toned, unabashedly romantic style of tenor saxophone, continuing in the vein of giants like Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, and, of ...

Honestly, it's tempting to imagine (shades of the urban legend about German avant-garde freaks Amon Düül) that when Houston Person signed to High Note Records in the mid-'90s, he recorded one marathon session and all of his albums since then ...

THE COMPLETE MUSE SESSIONS compiles the albums SOMETHING IN COMMON (Muse 5376) and NOW'S THE TIME (Muse 5421). In 1989-1990, tenor saxophonist Houston Person and bassist Ron Carter collaborated in duet studio sessions on the Muse label for the recordings titled ...

High Note Records, founded by the former owners of Muse Records, has retained some of the defunct label's more talented performers, one of them being Houston Person. Appearing as a leader, sideman, or guest on well over 100 recordings, Person ...

High Note Records, founded by the former owners of Muse Records, has retained some of the defunct label's more talented performers, one of them being Houston Person. Appearing as a leader, sideman, or guest on well over 100 recordings, Person ...

Tenor-saxophonist Houston Person's Christmas album finds him jamming both newer songs ("Santa Baby," "Our First Christmas" and "A Christmas Love Song") and a few old classics (including "Jingle Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"). His warm tenor is featured ...

High Note Records, founded by the former owners of Muse Records, has retained some of the defunct label's more talented performers, one of them being Houston Person. Appearing as a leader, sideman, or guest on well over 100 recordings, Person ...

Tenor-saxophonist Houston Person's Christmas album finds him jamming both newer songs ("Santa Baby," "Our First Christmas" and "A Christmas Love Song") and a few old classics (including "Jingle Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"). His warm tenor is featured ...

While he's never been an innovator, saxophonist Houston Person is one of the players maintaining the grand tradition of the huge-toned, unabashedly romantic style of tenor saxophone, continuing in the vein of giants like Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, and, of ...

One of the longest-lasting and critically lauded partnerships in jazz, the duo of vocalist Etta Jones and tenor saxophonist Houston Person ran from a concert in 1968 to Jones' death in 2001 on the same day their last album together, ...

Tenor-saxophonist Houston Person's Christmas album finds him jamming both newer songs ("Santa Baby," "Our First Christmas" and "A Christmas Love Song") and a few old classics (including "Jingle Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"). His warm tenor is featured ...

Houston Person is an excellent, underrated tenor saxophonist with a full, rich tone and a knack for well-constructed, tasteful, but never boring solos. That said, he's occasionally guilty of giving the people what they want, releasing smooth and conservative albums ...

While he's never been an innovator, saxophonist Houston Person is one of the players maintaining the grand tradition of the huge-toned, unabashedly romantic style of tenor saxophone, continuing in the vein of giants like Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, and, of ...

Tenor-saxophonist Houston Person's Christmas album finds him jamming both newer songs ("Santa Baby," "Our First Christmas" and "A Christmas Love Song") and a few old classics (including "Jingle Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman"). His warm tenor is featured ...

One of the longest-lasting and critically lauded partnerships in jazz, the duo of vocalist Etta Jones and tenor saxophonist Houston Person ran from a concert in 1968 to Jones' death in 2001 on the same day their last album together, ...

As the 21st century began, Houston Person was one of the last in a tradition of tough-toned but warm tenors able to straddle the boundaries between soul-jazz, hard bop, and soulful R&B. An expert at caressing and uplifting melodies, Person ...

Track Listing: Santa Baby; Our First Christmas; Christmas Love Song; Blue Christmas; It's Christmas Time Baby; Medley; Jingle Bells; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Merry Christmas Baby; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?; Happy Hanukah My Friend;

Honestly, it's tempting to imagine (shades of the urban legend about German avant-garde freaks Amon Düül) that when Houston Person signed to High Note Records in the mid-'90s, he recorded one marathon session and all of his albums since then ...

Houston Person is an excellent, underrated tenor saxophonist with a full, rich tone and a knack for well-constructed, tasteful, but never boring solos. That said, he's occasionally guilty of giving the people what they want, releasing smooth and conservative albums ...