#cat anderson

[edhoppers]

The speed of jazz music, 1950s-60s Francine Winham

[jazz-improvisation]

Trumpeter Cat Anderson (born: September 12, 1916)

photo: David Redfern

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Cat Anderson, Francine Winham

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…All of the books in my head have made me cynical and distant, but there’s a choir in him that calls me forward my disbelief built as it is from the bricks of his belief not in any America you might see on network news or hear heralded before a football game but in the quiet power of Sam Cooke singing that he was born by a river that remains unnamed that he runs alongside to this day, some vast and future country some nation within a nation, black as candor…

from “America Will Be” by Joshua Bennett, found in The Best American Poetry 2019, edited by Major Jackson and David Lehman, p. 10 (via revmeg)

[buellerismyfriend]

Cat Anderson by Francine Winham

[soundgrammar]

Jazz trumpeter Cat Anderson

[blowmyblues]

[gottahavesoul]

Duke Ellington - Sunset And The Mockingbird (The Queen's Suite, 1959)

Personnel:

Duke Ellington – piano Russell Procope – alto saxophone, clarinet Harry Carney – baritone saxophone Cat Anderson, Shorty Baker, Ray Nance, Clark Terry – trumpet Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman – trombone John Sanders – valve trombone Jimmy Hamilton – clarinet, tenor saxophone Johnny Hodges – alto saxophone Paul Gonsalves – tenor saxophone Jimmy Woode – double bass Jimmy Johnson – drums

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[mosaicrecords]

Bill Berry and the LA Band: Rockin' in Rhythm

A friend just turned me on to this 1974 Bill Berry album Hot And Heavy. An amazingly tight band with an A list of west coast musicians. This version of Rockin' In Rhythm features none other than Cat Anderson!

-Michael Cuscuna

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