Erica Lindsay

Who is Erica Lindsay?

Erica Lindsay is an American jazz saxophone player and composer.

Lindsay's parents, both teachers, lived in Europe in the 1960s. She began her studies in composition with Mal Waldron in Munich when she was fifteen years old and went to school there. She played in that time, first clarinet, then alto and tenor saxophone. In 1973, she studied for a year at the Berklee School of Music in Boston and then went back to Europe, where she began her music career and a local quartet went on tour, she also worked since then as a composer, arranger and soloist. Since 1980 she has lived in New York, where she's on television wrote. As a saxophonist, she worked since then and Others with Liston Melba, Clifford Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie and, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, George Gruntz and akLaff Pheeroan . Lindsay composed for theater, television and dance productions and worked with poets and performance artists such as Carl Hancock Rux, Janice King, Janine Vega, Mikhail Horowitz and Nancy Ostrovsky together. 1989 was created for the label Candid Records her debut album Dreamer ; contributory musicians including Robin Eubanks, Howard Johnson, Francesca Tanksley and Anthony Cox .