Bill Anschell - Rumbler (CD)

Magical... No matter where Anschell plays on the keyboard, he sounds like no other pianist. - JazzTimes. After a decade of recording mostly unscripted, improvised albums focused on his deep musical relationships with a few key players, pianist Bill Anschell returns to recording his own compositions and arrangements on "Rumbler," his fifteenth as a leader or co-leader. Anschell penned eight of the eleven tracks as well as arrangements of Thelonious Monk's "Misterioso" and Paul McCartney's "For No One. " Mostly written on the road in planes and hotel rooms, "Rumbler" doubles as a musical travelogue, especially vivid in it's reflection of experiences from his touring in South America over the last several years. Anschell is joined by a stellar cast of Seattle musicians, plus a guest appearance by Nashville saxophonist Jeff Coffin on the title track. The album closes with a moving, fully improvised solo expression of Duke Ellington's under-recorded "Reflections in D. "