Wessell Anderson
Wessell " Wes " "Warm Daddy" Anderson ( born November 27, 1964 in Brooklyn ) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone, flute, piano ).
Anderson grew up in Bedford -Stuyvesant and Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn and first learned classical piano from the age of twelve. Through his father, a drummer, he came to jazz; he joined as a teenager in local clubs and at first studied with Roland Alexander, then at the Jazz Mobile, where he attended workshops by Frank Wess, Charles Davis and Frank Foster. He got to know Branford Marsalis, who convinced him with Alvin Batiste at Southern University in Louisiana to study. In 1988 he was a member of the Wynton Marsalis septet, and also played in Marsalis ' Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. In 1994, he released his debut album on Atlantic Records, where Eric Reed and Ben Wolfe participated. He taught at Michigan State University. Anderson worked from 1987 to 2009 at 83 recording sessions. In 2012 he suffered a stroke.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Hot Daddy in the Garden of Swing (Atlantic, 1994)
- Ways of hot Daddy ( Atlantic, 1995)