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Bill Anschell

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Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, composing, and performing across the country and around the world. Anschell left Seattle after high school, studying for two years at Oberlin College (Ohio), then transferring to Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Music. At Wesleyan, Anschell worked closely with saxophone great Bill Barron. He also studied semi-privately with South Indian mridangum master T Ranganathan, kindling a passion for rhythmic experimentation that has driven Anschell’s music ever since. After leading the life of a jazz vagabond for several years, Anschell settled in Atlanta in 1989
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Anschell

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Anschell's birthday today! Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, composing, and performing across the country and around the world. Anschell left Seattle after high school, studying for two years at Oberlin College (Ohio), then transferring to Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where ...
Cascadia

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Cascadia; On a Misty Night; Evergreen Girl; Dark Eyes; Perfect Peaches; The Lonesome Road; Bourdain;
Wichita Lineman; Humble Origins; After the Rain.
Sittin at the Bar

Album: Players
By Eugenie Jones
Label: Open Mic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:50
Dmitri Matheny: Cascadia

by Jack Bowers
Cascadia encompasses an hour of amiable, even-tempered jazz from trumpeter Dmitri Matheny who, like several of his predecessorsChet Baker, Chuck Mangione, Guido Basso and his mentor, Art Farmer, among themfocuses exclusively on flugelhorn. Matheny uses his gorgeous tone and remarkable lyricism to paint exquisite portraits in sound throughout a program whose ten engaging numbers enfold half ...
Dmitri Matheny: Cascadia

by Dan McClenaghan
Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny and his quintet play perfectly on Cascadia. There is no surprise therewith a rhythm section of pianist Bill Anschell, bassist Phil Sparks and drummer Mark Ivester backing the front line of Matheny and saxophonist Charles McNeil perfection is the expectation. Matheny grew up in Georgia and Arizona, spent a formative and ...
Cascadia

Album: Cascadia
By Dmitri Matheny
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:26
Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Anschell

All About Jazz is celebrating Bill Anschell's birthday today! Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, composing, and performing across the country and around the world. Anschell left Seattle after high school, studying for two years at Oberlin College (Ohio), then transferring to Wesleyan University (Connecticut), where ...
Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Beginning For Live Resident Jazz

by Paul Rauch
The local jazz scene in Seattle has been vibrant and at times prolific over the last one hundred years. The city hosted the only fully integrated jazz club scene in the 1920's and '30s, inspiring Black musicians from the south to escape Jim Crow, and find a place to not only engage in the bustling club ...