Eric Alexander Quartet feat. Brad Mehldau & Quintet feat. Nicholas Payton

*PLEASE NOTE: All 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows

$25.00 / $50.00 / $60.00 / $65.00 – Wed, Thu & Sat

$25.00 / $40.00 / $50.00 / $55.00 – Fri & Sun

Wed – Thu

Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone

Brad Mehldau – piano

Alexander Claffy – bass

Carl Allen – drums

Fri – Sun

Eric Alexander – tenor saxophone

Nicholas Payton – trumpet

David Kikoski – piano

Alexander Claffy – bass

Carl Allen – drums

“One of the giants of the tenor sax.” – All Music Guide

Saxophonist Eric Alexander spends the week leading not one, but two extraordinary groups: A quartet on Wednesday and Thursday featuring the great pianist Brad Mehldau with bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Carl Allen; and a quintet on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with the acclaimed trumpeter Nicholas Payton, pianist David Kikoski, as well as Claffy and Allen.

Since he emerged in the early ’90s, Alexander has been “one of the finest bebop saxophonists in the world,” according to National Public Radio, producing an impressive discography, often collaborating with his one-time teacher, the late great Harold Mabern. In addition to leading his own groups, Alexander has worked notably with Pat Martino, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, George Coleman, Freddie Cole, and with the cooperative sextet, One for All. All About Jazz calls him “one of the more emotive and resourceful improvisers on the scene,” or as Downbeat put it, “one of the most blazingly bad-assed saxophonists of his generation.”