Results for "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

ARTICLE: PROFILE July 20, 2020

20 Seattle Jazz Musicians You Should Know: Greta Matassa

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 ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW June 21, 2019

Greta Matassa: Portrait

By PAUL RAUCH

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 ...

ARTICLE: PROFILE September 7, 2016

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

By PAUL RAUCH

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 ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW January 23, 2016

Nancy Erickson: While Strolling Through the Park

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

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 ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 28, 2015

Mercedes Nicole: People Are Talking

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

The difference between Mercedes Nicole's Beautiful Alignment (Self Produced, 2013) and People Are Talking is artistic growth and confidence. Beautiful Alignment was fueled by a youthful ambition and precocious talent. Nicole's evolution from that point manifests squarely in the refining fire of performance and practice, both which enhance her existing gift. People Are Talking reveals mature, ...

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Ballad of the Sad Young Men

By CLIPPER ANDERSON

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Blood Count; Weep They Will; With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair; Moment To Moment; Ballad Of The Sad Young Men; Everything I Love; Why Did I Choose You?; The Moon Was Yellow; Only The Lonely; Here I'll Stay; It Never Entered My Mind; As Long As There's Music.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW May 1, 2013

Clipper Anderson: Ballad of the Sad Young Men

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Hidden in the basement of Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington is bassist/vocalist Clipper Anderson. Not ringing any bells? That's because he has been a sideman, buried behind the principals on upwards of 60 recordings while recording as leader on two previous releases: And to All a Goodnight (Origin Records, 2011) and The Road Home (Origin ...

TRACK OF THE DAY February 6, 2012