Wess “Warmdaddy" Anderson, alto saxophone Sunday, December 4, 2005
6:00 PM All Souls at Sundown
1157 Lexington Avenue at 80th Street, NYC (subway: 6 train to 77th Street) Saxophonist Wess Anderson will be featured in an evening jazz meditation on Sunday, December 4 at 6:00 PM. No admission charge.
Brooklyn native Wess Anderson began playing the saxophone at age 14. A member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1988, he also played lead alto for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1992 to 2005. As a leader, Mr. Anderson has recorded and released four solo albums, Warmdaddy in the Garden of Swing (1994), The Ways of Warmdaddy (1996), Live at the Village Vanguard (1998), and Space (December, 2005). He performs and teaches around the world, and is professor of saxophone at Michigan State University.
Performing with Wess Anderson are Marcus Printup, trumpet; Aaron Goldberg, piano; Kengo Nakamura, bass; and Sachal Vasandani, vocals.
“Wess Anderson's playing contains the essence of soul, that's why we call him 'Warmdaddy'." - Wynton Marsalis
“Here's a player with great chops, copious soul and prolific mind who, above all, is his own man. As Stanley Crouch astutely observes in his liner notes, he's 'a first caliber swinger'." - All About Jazz No admission charge. For more information, call 212-535-5530.
6:00 PM All Souls at Sundown
1157 Lexington Avenue at 80th Street, NYC (subway: 6 train to 77th Street) Saxophonist Wess Anderson will be featured in an evening jazz meditation on Sunday, December 4 at 6:00 PM. No admission charge.
Brooklyn native Wess Anderson began playing the saxophone at age 14. A member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet since 1988, he also played lead alto for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra from 1992 to 2005. As a leader, Mr. Anderson has recorded and released four solo albums, Warmdaddy in the Garden of Swing (1994), The Ways of Warmdaddy (1996), Live at the Village Vanguard (1998), and Space (December, 2005). He performs and teaches around the world, and is professor of saxophone at Michigan State University.
Performing with Wess Anderson are Marcus Printup, trumpet; Aaron Goldberg, piano; Kengo Nakamura, bass; and Sachal Vasandani, vocals.
“Wess Anderson's playing contains the essence of soul, that's why we call him 'Warmdaddy'." - Wynton Marsalis
“Here's a player with great chops, copious soul and prolific mind who, above all, is his own man. As Stanley Crouch astutely observes in his liner notes, he's 'a first caliber swinger'." - All About Jazz No admission charge. For more information, call 212-535-5530.
For more information contact All About Jazz.
