Chris Anderson (pianist)

Chris Anderson ( born February 26, 1926 in Chicago, † February 4, 2008 in Manhattan, New York City ) was an American jazz pianist.

Life and work

Chris Anderson was self-taught and began in the mid 1940s, his music career in Chicago clubs in the Southside; he played among others at the Pershing Ballroom with Sonny Stitt, Von Freeman, and with Howard McGhee and Charlie Parker ( One Night in Chicago on Savoy, 1950), as well as an accompanist of singers Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. In 1955, he performed with Max Roach, Clifford Brown and Sonny Rollins Club The Beehive, among others. In the 1960s, Anderson worked in New York, where he, along with bassist Bill Lee and drummer Art Taylor recorded an album in 1960 for Vee Jay; in November 1961 was followed by the album Inverted image that appeared on Jazzland. Contributing musicians Bill Lee, Walter Perkins and Philly Joe Jones. Otherwise, he worked in Chicago as a house pianist in clubs and accompanied gas animal musicians like Gene Ammons and Stan Getz. In memory he remains as a teacher of Herbie Hancock, who explicitly praised him: "After hearing him play just once, I begged him to let me study with him. " He was many years due to physical disability - he was since the age of 20 blind and had as brittle bone affected numerous broken bones - not find work as a musician. In the 1980s and 1990s three albums released on the label Maple Shade and Naim. Anderson played in the 1990s also with Sun Ra / John Gilmore (At the Village Vanguard, 1991) and Clifford Jordan. 1997 was the duo album with Charlie Haden None But the Lonely Heart.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • My Romance (Vee Jay, 1962)
  • Inverted Image ( Jazzland, 1962) with Bill Lee ( b ) Walter Perkins, Philly Joe Jones
  • Love Locked Out ( Maple Shade, 1987) solo
  • You Do not Know What Love Is ( Naim, 1998) with Billy Higgins
  • From the Heart ( Naim, 1998) solo
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