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Church on Monday's new CD spends 13 weeks on JazzWeek and receives critical acclaim. Listen and purchase the new CD. Listen >> SHOWS Sept 22 at The 04 Center with Aubrey Logan All Shows >> AUSTIN MUSIC AWARDS Elias and his bands are winners of 6 Austin Music Awards |
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Over the span of his 25-year music career, native Texan and Austin resident Elias Haslanger has carved a unique and distinguished place in jazz history as a saxophonist, composer, and band leader, whose playing and writing has drawn comparisons to John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, and Wayne Shorter. Read bio >>
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“Elias Haslanger is the real deal, a no-nonsense modernist whose Rollins-esque rhythmatics and Coltrane-tinged harmonics surge and soar. Elias flies with a spiky quartet whose savvy hipness recalls the best groups of Davis, Blakey and Silver… a highly appealing recording.” -Chuck Berg, JazzTimes More press >>
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