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Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions

Read "Improbable Solutions" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 9, 2024

Most fans of Seattle-based pianist Bill Anschell will not see this one coming. His comfort zone on his own recordings has been as a mainstream acoustic jazz artist, on albums like Shifting Standards (2018), a piano trio affair, Rumbler (2017) and Figments (2011), a solo piano outing. All of these were released on Origin Records.

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Ambulator

January 9, 2024

Album: Improbable Solutions
By Bill Anschell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:34

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Bill Anschell: Improbable Solutions

Read "Improbable Solutions" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
December 31, 2023

Pianist and composer Bill Anschell has made his mark in jazz as a distinctive pianist with a notable body of work. His time in Atlanta, and his extensive residency in Seattle, has produced ten recordings as a leader or co-leader, and a well-deserved following on live dates with two distinctive trios, plus his “Rumbler" band. His ...

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Improbable Solutions

By Bill Anschell

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Ambulator; Nimbus; Gentle Persuasion; Naked Truth; Is This Thing Even On?; Hidden Nobility; The Following Week; Abandoned; Outburst.

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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Anschell

March 12, 2023

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 ...

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Players

By Eugenie Jones

Label: Open Mic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: There Are Thorns

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Cascadia

By Dmitri Matheny

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.

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Sittin at the Bar

October 12, 2022

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

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Dmitri Matheny: Cascadia

by Jack Bowers
July 11, 2022

Cascadia encompasses an hour of amiable, even-tempered jazz from trumpeter Dmitri Matheny who, like several of his predecessors—Chet Baker, Chuck Mangione, Guido Basso and his mentor, Art Farmer, among them—focuses 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 ...

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Dmitri Matheny: Cascadia

Read "Cascadia" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 7, 2022

Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny and his quintet play perfectly on Cascadia. There is no surprise there—with 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 ...