WESS “WARMDADDY” ANDERSON 6tet

Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, saxophone | TBA

Wess Warmdaddy Anderson

Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson for the first time in Ascona with a straight-ahead Jazz and Bebop sextet

JazzAscona is honored to host the great alto saxophonist Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson for the first time. Born in 1966, raised in Brooklyn and introduced to Jazz by his father, a drummer, Anderson played in local clubs since his teens and studied at the Jazzmobile workshops with Frank Wess, Charles Davis and Frank Foster. There he also met Branford and Wynton Marsalis. The former convinced him to study with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Louisiana, and the latter took him on tour with the Wynton Marsalis Septet. Anderson thus found himself in the studio and on the road with Marsalis, contributing to some of the most significant music of the late 1980s and early 1990s Jazz renaissance. First alto saxophonist in the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Anderson also released several successful albums. At JazzAscona 2024 he will perform on the first three days of the festival along with a sextet of American, French and Swiss musicians playing straight-ahead Jazz and Bebop.

Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson 6tet
20 – 22.6 2024

FIRST TIME AT JAZZASCONA!

 

From:
New Orleans

Style:
Jazz, Straight-ahead Jazz, Bebop

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