Jazz Articles about Vijay Anderson

About Vijay Anderson

Album Review

Marco Eneidi Quintet: Wheat Fields of Kleylehof

Read "Wheat Fields of Kleylehof" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
November 30, 2025

To borrow a phrase once associated with Charlie Parker after his death: “Marco Eneidi lives!" Though less widely known in the mainstream jazz world, alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi (1956--2016) was a towering figure in free jazz and creative music. A West Coast native, he moved to New York in the 1980s and, following the passing of Jimmy Lyons, assumed the alto chair in Cecil Taylor's band. Taylor's rigorous methodology had a profound impact on Eneidi, as did the energy of ...

Radio & Podcasts

Vijay Anderson, Mike Reed, Francisco Mela & Irreversible Entanglements

by Maurice Hogue
October 10, 2023

Some drummers in the spotlight in this episode: LA/New York's Vijay Anderson and his Silver Screen Quintet tackle an city problem on the new Urban Jungle Los Angeles , while Chicago's Mike Reed explores loneliness and isolation on his new The Separatist Party. Francisco Mela teams up with one of his students at Berklee, saxophonist Jonathan Reisin on their new Earthquake, while Brian Blade is part of the Koppel-Colley Blade Collective with Danish saxophonist Benjamin Koppel and veteran bassist Scott ...

Album Review

Ava Mendoza, Vijay Anderson, Stephen Gauci: Studio Sessions Vol. 4

Read "Studio Sessions Vol. 4" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 22, 2022

Free jazz della più chiara (e abbastanza indiscriminata, acritica) acqua è quello che ci accoglie da subito in questo album, inciso nel febbraio 2019 e pubblicato alla fine di quello stesso anno. Vi figura uno degli elementi più interessanti delle nuove leve del jazz (in realtà classe 1983, ma si sa che oggi, musicalmente parlando, si diventa maggiorenni attorno ai quaranta) come la chitarrista Ava Mendoza, ma il deus ex machina dell'operazione, nonché editore dell'album (ricorda un po' quei ragazzini ...

Album Review

Vijay Anderson Trio: Studio Sessions Vol. 10

Read "Studio Sessions Vol. 10" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 2, 2021

Brooklyn-based Californian drummer Vijay Anderson leads an impressively cohesive trio on Studio Sessions Vol .10. In this case cohesion is a product of shared experience. Anderson's career has been intertwined with bassist Adam Lane's since 2003, and can be heard on Zero Degree Music (CIMP, 2005), New Magical Kingdom (Clean Feed, 2006),and Absolute Horizon (NoBusiness, 2013). Likewise, clarinetist Ben Goldberg has been a long-time colleague of the drummer, as evidenced by his appearances on Hard-Boiled Wonderland (Not Two, 2010) and ...

Radio & Podcasts

Vijay Anderson, Francois Houle & Susan Alcorn

by Maurice Hogue
December 2, 2020

One could almost make the case that this episode is a reverse sandwich, with the filling on the outside, considering the first tracks from a sizzling hot Vijay Anderson Trio and the windup tune from pedal steel guitarist Susan Alcorn and her fine band of Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek, Mark Feldman and Ryan Sawyer. You could also make the case that this all tasty filling with music from Vancouver's premier clarinetist Francois Houle and his quartet, the Owl Trio from ...

Album Review

Mendoza / Anderson / Gauci: Studio Sessions Vol. 4

Read "Studio Sessions Vol. 4" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
March 22, 2020

If you want to avoid compromise, then starting your own label appears a sound strategy. That's the road traveled by NYC-native saxophonist Stephen Gauci with his eponymous imprint. Since its inception in 2019, releases have been split between live recordings from the Bushwick Improvisers Series which Gauci runs and studio sessions, all of which so far have featured the reedman in a variety of settings, from his quartet with Sandy Ewen, Adam Lane and Kevin Shea, to his duo with ...

Album Review

Vijay Anderson: Hard-Boiled Wonderland

Read "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 27, 2010

Hard-Boiled Wonderland, nome preso da un romanzo di Haruki Murakami, è un ensemble allestito dal batterista e band leader Vijay Anderson che per l'occasione riunisce due trii con i quali si esibiva nella Bay area nel periodo 2007-2008. Il primo con la presenza di due fiati, il secondo con due chitarre. Non la classica doppia formazione che raddoppia la strumentazione alla maniera di Free Jazz di Ornette Coleman o Ascension di John Coltrane, ma un sestetto dalla genesi piuttosto inconsueta ...