Haslanger, Elias

I was lucky enough to catch Austin's own Tenor Sax player extraordinaire, Elias (or Eli) Haslanger twice during SXSW 2012, first onstage with Alejandro Escovedo and his cast of guests at the Chronicle Austin Music Awards at the Austin Music Hall on Wednesday, March 14, 2012 and then again with my wife on Friday night at the basement Elephant Room in a SXSW showcase. Eli has 25 years of experience and it shows, in his up tempo songs and his more mellow standards. Eli is getting well deserved recognition, with his late 2012 release of his 5th full length CD, "Church on Monday", and 2013 feature article in the June issue of Downbeat magazine, http://www.downbeat.com.