Jazz Articles about Anthony Wilson

Melody Gardot: Sunset in the Blue

by Scott Gudell
January 25, 2021

Melody Gardot emerged from her own smoky shadows of the mid-2000s as if she were some femme fatale emanating from a film noir movie. The plot twist was that she was the good girl, but it was her body that had been damaged in an auto accident. An extensive recovery followed. Her long, lean cane only reinforced her long, lean looks. The shades added just a touch of mystery. If there was anything positive, it was that she confronted the ...

Anthony Wilson: Seasons

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 17, 2012

Il chitarrista Anthony Wilson, noto principalmente per la sua partecipazione nel quartetto di Diana Krall fino dal 2001, è anche un compositore/arrangiatore molto attivo con vari progetti a suo nome, tra i quali spiccano un trio (con organo e batteria) e un nonetto, a cavallo tra avanguardia e tradizione. La sua discografia conta già una decina di titoli, di cui questo Seasons è il più recente, e uno dei lavori più ambiziosi. La suite che dà il titolo al CD ...

Anthony Wilson: Campo Belo

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 23, 2011

Campo Belo è l'ottava uscita discografica del chitarrista statunitense Anthony Wilson, conosciuto da molti per la sua militanza nel gruppo di Diana Krall che continua dal 2001. Due anni dopo Jack of Hearts (che lo vedeva al fianco del leggendario batterista Jim Keltner e dell'organista Larry Goldings), Wilson torna a dare spazio alle sue doti compositive ed esecutive alla testa di un quartetto che include tre giovani musicisti brasiliani. Il titolo dell'album e la nazionalità dei tre partner non ci ...

Anthony Wilson: Power Of Nine

by Budd Kopman
January 15, 2007

Anthony Wilson, the son of Gerald Wilson--and Diana Krall's guitarist for quite a while--has been gradually making a name for himself with each of his releases, of which The Power Of Nine is the sixth. Increasing his forces to a nonet, Wilson has created an album of interesting arrangements and many beautiful sounds, blending the brass and reeds expertly. The beginning of the record sounds like standard fare, starting with a straightforward mid-tempo Duke Pearson tune, “Make ...

Anthony Wilson Nonet: Power Of Nine

by Alain Londes
November 10, 2006

Anthony Wilson's young talent has earned him opportunities to play with a number of other jazz artists within different configurations. The guitarist son of legendary composer/arranger/bandleader Gerald Wilson has already played with the likes of Bennie Wallace, Larry Goldings, Joe Henry, Harold Land, Chris Botti and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. He joined Diana Krall on her Grammy-winning Live In Paris (Verve Records, 2002), and they have remained friends since. Wilson has been a member of the Jazz Studies faculty at ...

Anthony Wilson Nonet: Power Of Nine

by Michael P. Gladstone
November 9, 2006

Anthony Wilson has been a vital member of singer Diana Krall's group over the past few years, but the guitarist has also been able to maintain his own identity as a bandleader and composer, recording five albums since 1997. These releases have met with very positive critical responses.

On his sixth and most ambitious work to date, Power Of Nine, the guitarist works with a nonet. Given the fact that he is the son of famed bandleader Gerald ...

Anthony Wilson: Adult Themes

by Jack Bowers
January 1, 2000

In spite of its provocative title, the themes on composer / arranger / guitarist Anthony Wilson’s third release for the MAMA Foundation aren’t x–rated. Perhaps “music for adults” would be a more accurate description, for that it surely is. Wilson, who has reached the ripe old age of 31, validates the uncommon maturity that overspread his self–titled debut album and its successor, Goat Hill Junket. He does so with a series of remarkably inventive charts for his 11–piece ensemble that ...