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Clipper Anderson

Clipper Anderson is one of the Northwest's leading Bassists. Playing all styles on acoustic and electric bass, Clipper is a composer, studio musician, vocalist and educator. A native of Polson, Montana, Clipper began playing electric electric bass in 1973. Six months later he was selected by Rich Matteson as the All-Star bass player in Montana State University’s statewide high school jazz festival. Clipper was educated at the University of Montana, where he studied classical bass under Frank Diliberto and Jazz Workshop under Lance Boyd. It was there that he began to master the acoustic bass. The list of recordings on which Clipper appears is both long and impressive, including five with award winning Seattle jazz vocalist, Greta Matassa

Players

By Eugenie Jones

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

Sittin at the Bar

October 12, 2022

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

There Are Thorns

January 24, 2022

Album: Players
By Eugenie Jones
Label: Open Mic Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 5:31

Mai-Liis on Life

By Mai-Liis

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Unicorns and Innocence; Distance Man; To Whom It May Concern; Fait Accompli; Oh Well; My Eyes of Yesterday; Carnage in Your Wake (A Love Song); Sister Child; Number 9; Jilted Woman.

Unicorns and Innocence

March 18, 2021

Album: Mai-Liis on Life
By Mai-Liis
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:52

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Greta Matassa

by Paul Rauch
July 20, 2020

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 ...

Greta Matassa: Portrait

by Paul Rauch
June 21, 2019

Greta Matassa has made choices in her career that have sacrificed some visibility in exchange for lifestyle. Yet the Seattle based vocal artist has established herself firmly as one of America's finest singers, and one of the best that jazz has to offer in the new century. To this point, the jazz public at large had ...

Tula's Jazz Club: A Seattle Tradition in the Making

by Paul Rauch
September 7, 2016

Life in the Pacific Northwest is hauntingly similar to jazz music itself, from that which is inward, deep in the recesses of our collective soul, to the outward expressionism as a ray of sunlight, an exaltation of joy, harmony expressed in the deep, deep blue of sentient life, and of our enlightened sky. High notes expressed ...

Nancy Erickson: While Strolling Through the Park

by C. Michael Bailey
January 23, 2016

Listening to “New Year's Eve," Nancy Erickson's original composition opening her third recording, While Strolling Through the Park, makes me recall the songwriting of Dr. Louise Van Aarsen (Destiny (Self Produced, 2012)). Both sport a very contemporary and adult vision of falling in love, having a family and simply living. That is refreshing in that this ...