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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Anschell

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 ...

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Article: What is Jazz?

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Beginning For Live Resident Jazz

Read "Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Beginning For Live Resident Jazz" reviewed 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 ...

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Song of the Day

There Are Thorns

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Label: Open Mic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:31

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Mystery & Wonder

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Wonderland; Wind; Universal Grace; Do not stand at my grave and weep; Mystery & Wonder; Love is Alive; Light of the Sea; Sorrow; Reveal; South; Night.

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Wonderland

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Label: Origin Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 03:58

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Bill Anschell

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 ...

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Article: Bill Anschell's Notes from the Lobby

The Weakened Worriers

Read "The Weakened Worriers" reviewed by Bill Anschell


Inspired by actual events. John awoke feeling unsettled. He'd had a troubled sleep, which usually meant he'd gone to bed upset. So he turned his thoughts to last night's gig--one of the musicians must have said something to him afterward. No, wait! None of them said anything to him, that was it! Nobody said, ...

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Article: Profile

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Bill Anschell

Read "20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Bill Anschell" reviewed by Paul Rauch


The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and '30s. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

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Article: Profile

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: D'Vonne Lewis

Read "20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: D'Vonne Lewis" reviewed by Paul Rauch


The city of Seattle has a jazz history that dates back to the very beginnings of the form. It was home to the first integrated club scene in America on Jackson St in the 1920's and 30's. It saw a young Ray Charles arrive as a teenager to escape the nightmare of Jim Crow in the ...

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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 mridangam master T Ranganathan, kindling a passion for rhythmic experimentation that has driven Anschell’s music ever since.


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