Bill Anschell - Figments (CD)

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 of solo piano 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." "No matter where Anschell plays on the keyboard, he sounds like no other pianist." - JazzTimes.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
2. All My Tomorrows
3. Alice's Restaurant
4. Big Yellow Taxi
5. It Never Entered My Mind
6. Willow Weep for Me
7. Spinning Wheel
8. Across the Universe
9. Honeysuckle Rose
10. Desperado
11. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
12. Ask Me Why