Bill Anschell - Improbable Solutions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Throughout Figments, pianist Bill Anschell's creative, abstract approach takes each song to unexpected places without ever leaving his audience behind. Self-recorded over a series of late nights, after gigs, when Anschell's Inchinternal supervisor had clocked out.Inch the result is twelve genre-bending, near stream-of-consciousness takes of solo piano covering a mix of jazz standards and pop songs from the 60s and 70s. Highlights include Arlo Guthrie's protest song InchAlice's Restaurant,Inch a meditative take on the Rodgers and Hart standard InchIt Never Entered My Mind,Inch and a prepared-piano version of Joni Mitchell's InchBig Yellow Taxi.Inch InchNo matter where Anschell plays on the keyboard, he sounds like no other pianist.Inch - JazzTimes. Album Tracks 1. My Heart Belongs to Daddy 2. All My Tomorrows 3. Alice's Restaurant 4. Big Yellow Taxi 5. It Never Entered My Mind 6. Willow Weep for Me 7. Spinning Wheel 8. Across the Universe 9. Honeysuckle Rose 10. Desperado 11. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 12. Ask Me Why

Pianist/composer Bill Anschell's recordings are often filled with his unique and vibrant original compositions or surprising, liberated arrangements of jazz & pop classics. For Shifting Standards, Anschell depends on the uncanny shared intuition that's been developed over ten years with his trio-mates, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer D'Vonne Lewis. Well-loved standards from jazz and Great American Songbook composers unfold, capturing the trio's live chemistry and spontaneity on material ranging from Dizzy Gillespie's InchCon AlmaInch and InchA Night in TunisiaInch to Leonard Bernstein's under-recorded gem, InchSome Other Time.InchInchBill Anschell would be a bad ass wherever he lived, even Greenwich Village. He is an impeccable, distinctive pianist with a valuable body of work on Seattle's Origin tag.Inch - JazzTimes Album Tracks 1. A Night in Tunisia 2. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 3. Cheek to Cheek 4. You and the Night and the Music 5. Some Other Time 6. Con Alma 7. Soul Eyes 8. Jitterburg Waltz 9. All of You

Jazz lovers who chose pianist Bill Anschell as InchNW Instrumentalist of the YearInch in 2005 will welcome his finest work to date. Featuring many of Anschell's favorite Seattle players, this new recording is a mix of standards (including both spontaneous performances and Anschell's irreverent InchderangementsInch), and Anschell's own compositions, reflecting his passion for rhythmic experimentation, with influences as diverse as South Indian classical music, traditional Cuban drumming, and New Orleans funk. Inch... excellent straight-ahead jazz, with lots of personality... Inch - Modern Drummer. Album Tracks 1. Night and Day 2. Bent 3. Crazy He Calls Me 4. Emily 5. As the Crow Flies 6. Humble Origins 7. Alone Together 8. I'll Take Romance 9. Morning Fog 10. Faster Than the Speed of Mildew 11. At the End of the Day