Elias Haslanger

Tenor, alto, and soprano saxophone participant Elias Haslanger was raised through the 1980s in the Austin, Tx, region, hearing the sounds from the Marsalis brothers and additional small jazz players want Tag Whitfield and Roy Hargrove. In 6th grade, Haslanger found the saxophone, and by enough time he is at senior high school, he was playing gigs round the Austin and San Antonio region. After going to the University or college of Tx at Austin and learning with renowned saxophone instructor Harvey Pittel, Haslanger went to the Manhattan College of Music and later on Southwest Tx State University, where period he received the Downbeat College student Music Honor for College Exceptional Tenor Saxophone Overall performance. Haslanger’s 1994 debut recording Standards is usually a assortment of straight-ahead bop and golf swing tunes having a group of best Austin region musicians. Haslanger offers continued documenting in an identical vein: 1998’s Kicks Are for Children features Haslanger having a group of stellar sidemen including famed pianist Ellis Marsalis, drummer J.J. Johnson, and Edwin Livingston on bass. Haslanger trips widely and it is a regular guest around the jazz event circuit, with annual appearances in the North Ocean and Montreux Jazz Celebrations in holland and Switzerland, respectively.