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Michael Anthony

Recollections

By Michael Anthony

Label: Lone Guitar Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Mr. Lucky; Union Square; Elevation; Recollections of HR; Monk’s Dream; Sometime Ago; Flor de Lis; On a Slow Boat to China; It’s All Right with Me; How Deep Is the Ocean; Monk’s Shop.

Michael Anthony Natural Instincts Trio: Nostalgia

by Jack Bowers
October 2, 2014

Guitarist Michael Anthony, whose warm salute to mentor and friend Howard Roberts, Recollections, was reviewed here in June, recorded another tribute album seven years earlier (2007), this one dedicated to another longtime friend and colleague, the late Al Viola, who passed away in February of that year. Anthony says he was fortunate to have met Roberts ...

First Take Trio: Recollections

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2014

When Michael Anthony left home in the late 1950s for the bright lights of Hollywood, one of the resident artists who took him under his wing was fellow guitarist Howard Roberts, already established as one of the film and television industry's top studio musicians as well as an esteemed jazz virtuoso whose work with the Chico ...

Buddy Rich: The Beat Goes On

by Jack Bowers
June 11, 2014

Was Buddy Rich really “the world's greatest drummer"? The answer to that speculative question is debatable, of course, and opinions may vary, as they no doubt do on what kind of a person (or persons) he was when not weaving his particular brand of magic behind a drum kit. Buddy's remarkable talents as a drummer and ...

From Charlie Christian to Charlie Parker

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2012

It's not often one has a chance to see and hear a dozen of New Mexico's premier jazz musicians together onstage (or almost so) for a single concert, but that is what took place August 11 as an overflow audience welcomed the Charlie Christian Project and SuperSax New Mexico to the Albuquerque Museum of Art and ...

Marching to a Jazz Tempo

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2012

March came in like a lion in Albuquerque with no less than four blue-chip jazz concerts in the first five days, three of which I attended, passing on the first (the Charlie Christian Project featuring guitarist Michael Anthony and trumpeter Bobby Shew at The Outpost Performance Space) because Betty and I had seen basically the same ...

Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore

by Jack Bowers
August 4, 2011

Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...