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Bob Anram

University of Illinois Jazz Band

While with The One Eyed Jacks, performed with The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Vanilla Fudge

Battled Sonny Stitt and Eddie Harris in Chicago in the early 70s.

Albums: The Hurricane Session with Dutch Bassist Philip Baumgarten

The Blank Canvas with the Philip Baumgarten Trio featuring Leonieke Vermeer on piano and Matthias van Olst on drums

Both albums on the Tracks to Wax label

Authored articles on the psychology of jazz improvisation for the international website:Sax on the Web.

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The tenor-bass duets of Bob Anram and Philip Baumgarten are full of close communication, spontaneity, melodic development, and a cool fire. While based in bebop and cool jazz, the musicians are not shy to stretch themselves in freer explorations and they manage to be both subtle and unpredictable at the same time. This is stimulating and fun music.-Scott Yanow, Author of ten books including Bebop and The Jazz Singers

Muziekpodia Review

Simplicity is an asset for a musician It’s old American grooving jazz from a contemporary source: Philip Baumgarten and Bob Anram. For students of the bass and saxophone, this should be a welcome CD. ‘Don’t look up’ for instance is a sax lesson in how to play grooving licks on the saxophone. It is followed by the easy, warm ‘Blues for Dee’. Philip demonstrates how to play bass with his sober and natural approach. He directs and improvises, is creative and decidedly not lazy. He has a full, fleshy tone. It sounds like he’s playing in a small jazz club with a wooden floor. These men are fully concentrated and you can hear they’re full of life. This is their world, this is the music they study. These masters play the kind of notes that form understandable melodies. They seem to dance to each other’s music in their thinking. Their oneness becomes visible, as an old masterpiece does when it is restored. The titles of the pieces are great, like ‘Trane Dance’, ‘Google’n The Frog’, and ‘Maja’, the only piece by Philip Baumgarten. It is simple and artful. The other compositions are by Bob Anram. Philip’s encounter with American Bob Anram is a huge success. Steve Pagano, owner of the Spock Studio, thinks so to and he is enthusiastic about this event. Hence this recording.

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