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Peter and Will have headlined at The Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Sarasota Florida Jazz Festival, South Carolina’s Jazz Corner, Seattle’s Triple Door, Miami-Dade’s Cultural Arts Center, and The Arizona Music Festival. Their ensemble has performed in 30 U.S. States, toured Japan, and featured four times in NYC’s famed “Highlights in Jazz” series, alongside legends Lou Donaldson, Paquito D’Rivera, and Wycliffe Gordon. As clinicians, Peter and Will have taught at the College of Charleston, Temple University, and Michigan State University among others.
Peter and Will’s 2012 debut release, Correspondence, features Kenny Barron and was chosen by Vanity Fair magazine alongside Miles Davis in “Four New Releases to Make You Love Jazz.” Most recently, Peter and Will are featured on JAZZIZ Magazine’s Winter 2014 CD Soundtrack. Their recent release, Reed Reflections, was called be the Washington Post, “imaginatively unfolding in ways that consistently bring a fresh perspective to classic jazz tunes.” Peter and Will’s newest album of original music, Deja Vu, features Albert “Tootie” Heath, and was released in April 2015.
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Jill McCarron Trio with Will Anderson: Jazz Motif
by Jack Bowers
Pianist Jill McCarron's latest recording, Jazz Motif, gets off to a flying start with Will Anderson's irrepressible alto saxophone setting the pace on a fiery rendition of All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" and his radiant flute showcased on John Lewis' groovy Concorde." Alas, Anderson isn't heard again until Tracks 7 (Clare Fischer's Ontem a Noite") and 9 (Antonio Carlos Jobim's Chovendo Na Roseira"), both on flute, and uncases the alto only one more time, on Horace Silver's buoyant Cool Eyes." ...
read morePeter And Will Anderson: Featuring Jimmy Cobb
by Edward Blanco
Grammy Award-winning saxophonists and identical twins, Peter and Will Anderson document another burner of a recording on their Featuring Jimmy Cobb album, released within days of the passing of the legendary drummer in May 2020. The last surviving member of the Miles Davis band that recorded the ground-breaking jazz album Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959), Jimmy Cobb passed away at age 91. While not originally designed as a tribute project, this album may well be one of ...
read moreJazz this week: Melissa Aldana, Keri Johnsrud, Peter and Will Anderson, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Although this week's schedule of jazz and creative music is considerably less jam-packed than last week's, listeners still will have a chance to check out several intriguing young performers visiting St. Louis, plus an assortment of shows from various hometown favorites. Let's go to this highlights... Wednesday, April 27 Saxophonist Melissa Aldana makes her St. Louis debut with the first of four evenings of performances continuing though Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro Aldana, a 27-year-old native of Chile who ...
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