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Johnaye Kendrick: Flying
by Paul Rauch
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
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
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
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
One of the most valuable players in 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 his ...
mockhausen
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
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
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'.
