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Vocalist And Composer Johnaye Kendrick Releases Flying On Johnygirl Records

August 18, 2018

Attending the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz in the late 2000s, vocalist and composer Johnaye Kendrick had the opportunity to learn from and work with legendary jazz masters Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Danilo Perez, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Brian Blade. While studying with Blanchard, her class was often encouraged to write original music for their ...

Johnaye Kendrick: Flying

by Paul Rauch
August 10, 2018

Once, maybe twice in a generation, a singer enters the world of jazz and captivates the genre so dominated by jazz instrumentalists. There are qualities in the voice, delivery, the exquisite phrasing, and inexhaustible ability to deliver a narrative in such a way that expresses the jazz and blues tradition in a special and personal way. ...

Michael Waldrop: Origin Suite

by Jack Bowers
February 5, 2018

Drummer / vibraphonist Michael Waldrop's intriguing Origin Suite (deftly arranged by Jack Cooper) sweeps away musical boundaries to make its points, one of which is that big-band jazz needn't be ensnared in a time warp but is capable of changing with the times to engender songs that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are thematically stylish. ...

Bill Anschell: Curiosity and Invention

by Paul Rauch
November 9, 2017

Bill Anschell strikes me as a man with boundless curiosity. You perceive this in conversation, in his sense of humor, the patient manner in which he listens on and off the bandstand. You sense it in his inventive compositions, the rhythmic complexity, and the musical conception that lyrically imprints an authentic sense of melody. His work ...

Bill Anschell: Rumbler

by Paul Rauch
January 2, 2017

Seattle's eclectic jazz scene has produced a long line of significant voices that have impacted the music on a national and international level. Bill Anschell, as a pianist and composer certainly falls into that category that has produced the likes of Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Ernestine Anderson, and presently, trumpeter Thomas Marriott. His new Origin Records ...

New Origin Records CD By Pianist/Composer Bill Anschell, "Rumbler," Set For January 20 Release

December 23, 2016

One of the most valuable players in jny: Seattle’s thriving jazz scene, pianist Bill Anschell is a prolific composer and adept arranger who’s explored those aspects of his craft since debuting on disc 20 years ago. His new Origin Records CD, Rumbler, which will be released January 20, is Anschell’s ninth album as a leader and ...

Blueprints

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2012

mockhausen

By Headless Household

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Opened House; For What Ails You; Lust's Drowsy Watchman; Elvin (Palimpsest); The Feeling of Give; Concretics; No Real Time like the Tense Present; Re-Opened House; Photo Shooto; Happily Mapless; Skippy Elvin; Wintry (Invention).

Free Associations

By Headless Household

Label: Household Ink Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Tiddly Wink; My Baby Left Brain; Requiem for a Vacant Lot; The Eiffel Tower Made Easy; Laconics 1 (Mancheadlessini); Honey, I'm Home; Green Swipe Pattern; The Real of the Lake; Surf Punctuation; Angry Poodle; Man (with) Hat (and) Tan; Sullen Gypsum; fragMentor.

ITEMS

By Headless Household

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1995
Track listing: Fan Fair; Hypothyroid Dough Boy; 3 a.m. Western (All the Whiskey in China); Expectators; House Rules; News Flash (Toronto Blues Society); Dance Peace; (Open Letter to) Manfred Eicher; Ernesta; In His Absence; For What Ails You (and Slight Return); Pig in a Polka; Nodding Up Front; Hefty Darlin'.