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by Terrell Kent Holmes
Alto saxophonist Wessell Anderson is a traditionalist who clearly enjoys upending tradition. On Warm It Up, Warmdaddy! several of the songs rework the harmonic structures of some cherished standards and their titles are the work of someone who embraces the classics without taking them too seriously. The mischief begins with “What Is Dat Thang?," a riff on “What Is This Thing Called Love." Anderson lays down high-energy, upper register lines over a dynamite vamp by the rhythm ...
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by Bruce Lindsay
Wessell “Warmdaddy" Anderson has been playing alto saxophone professionally for over 20 years, much of the time with the Wynton Marsalis Sextet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, but has only four albums to his name as a leader. Warm It Up Warmdaddy! is a re-packaging, by Nu Jazz Records, of his self-released 2006 CD, Space. As his nickname suggests, Warmdaddy's sax playing has a rich and welcoming ton,e and coupled with the equally warm and swinging styles of ...
read moreWessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson: Live at the Village Vanguard
by Jack Bowers
Every so often, floating above the over–abundance of cookie–cutter mimes who overspread today’s mainstream Jazz scene, one hears a fresh and earnest new voice that causes him to do a double–take and say to himself, “Did I hear what I thought I heard?” That was my wholly unanticipated reaction as I listened for the first time to Wessell Anderson’s high–powered concert date recorded last May at New York’s Village Vanguard. Here’s a player with great chops, copious soul and prolific ...
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by C. Michael Bailey
Big Alto Saxophonists. A copy of Sherman Irby's new disc, Big Mama's Biscuits (also reviewed this month) recently crossed my desk and got me to thinking about alto saxophone players who were also physically large men, such as the corpulent Irby. While this specialized population would include Bird when he was healthy, I was thinking more along the lines of Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and those that followed him. I went on to listen to a lot of Cannon's music, from ...
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