Bill Anschell - Figments (2011)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 182.60 Mb | 51:54 | Covers
Post-Bop, Contemporary Jazz | Label: Origin Records - 82590
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 "internal supervisor had clocked out." The result is twelve genre-bending, near stream-of-consciousness takes covering a mix of jazz standards and pop songs from the 60s and 70s. Highlights include Arlo Guthrie?s protest song "Alice?s Restaurant," a meditative take on the Rodgers and Hart standard "It Never Entered My Mind," and a prepared-piano version of Joni Mitchell?s "Big Yellow Taxi."