Jazz Articles about Goat Hill Junket

Goat Hill Junket: Anthony Wilson

by Ed Kopp
February 1, 1999

It's easy to grasp why Anthony Wilson's harmonically rich arrangements have so many hard-ass jazz critics heaping praise. This is an elegant and ambitious album that invites comparisons to Wynton Marsalis’s best work.Anthony Wilson is the 30-year-old son of L.A. bandleader and composer Gerald Wilson. A guitarist who plays his Gibson with boppish proficiency, Wilson is also a talented composer-arranger whose music combines the swing-era elegance of Duke Ellington with the fluid complexity of Gil Evans. Goat Hill ...