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Anthony E. Nelson, Jr.

About Me

Anthony Nelson has made a name for himself as a composer and woodwindist, being proficient on several saxes, flute, clarinet, and bass clarinet. Anthony's talents have been utilized by a wide variety of artist, including "The O'Jays", "The Duke Ellington Orchestra", Faith Evans, "The Count Basie Orchestra", funk icons "B.T. Express", T. S. Monk, The Ray Charles Orchestra, Cecil Brooks III, and several others. Most recently Anthony has been touring with MacARthur Award winner, violinist Regina Carter, serving as the clarinetist in her quintet. Anthony has also shared the stage with jazz greats such as Billy Hart, John Hicks, Hamiett Bluiett, Clark Terry, John Fadis, Howard Johnson, Don Braden, Craig Handy, Charlie Persip, and Bill Easley, to name a few. Anthony has recorded with the "Cab Calloway Orchestra", T.S. Monk, organist Radam Schwartz, and appears on WBGO's Jazz Set with Regina Carter. Anthony is also a cast member of "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith". Anthony is currently promoting his new cd "Testament: Live At Cecil's".To download Anthony's cd you can go to: http://www.digstation.com/AnthonyENelson,Jr or http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/AnthonyENelsonJr.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)kground-color:rgb(204,51,0); } body, div, p, strong, td, .text, .blacktext10, .blacktext12, a.searchlinkSmall, a.searchlinkSmall:link, a.searchlinkSmall:visited{ color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; text-transform:none; } a

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/02/2006
Band Website: AnthonyNelsonJrJazz.com
Band Members: Allyn Johnson: piano, Matthew Parish: bass, Tyshawn Sorey: drums, Cecil Brooks III: drums, Freddie Hendrix: trumpet & flugelhorn,
Influences: Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons, Raphael Saadiq, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, John Coltrane, Paul Gozalvez, Wynton Kelly, Marvin Gaye, Nancy Wilson, Gary Bartz, Seth Morrison, Donovan Jackson, Backyard Band, Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and many others...
Sounds Like: An accumalation of my influences, always soulful.
Record Label: MUSICSTAND Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Anthony Nelson Trio @ Cousins

Greetings to the soulful,The Anthony Nelson Trio will be performing at "Cousins", in Plainfield, NJ. "Cousins" specializes in Caribbean cuisine, and will celebrating it's grand opening. In order to ma...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:16:00 GMT

Show in DC

Greetings to the Soulful,Thanks to all that came out to "Twins Jazz" in D.C, on historic U St. N.W. this past weekend. The whole band had a great time, and look forward to going back.That being said,w...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:15:00 GMT

Anthony Nelson Quartet Live @ Twins

Come out and join the Anthony Nelson Quartet as we groove our way down to 'Twins Jazz" in Washing to DC. The quartet will be performing on Friday, June 8th, & Saturday, June 9th. Hope to see you there...
Posted by on Thu, 31 May 2007 11:32:00 GMT

Abundance of music

Greetings to the Soulful I've heard people complain about the quality of music on the radio, the lack of creativity today, and just an overall dislike for what's being presented as good music. Well, f...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 07:26:00 GMT

First entry

Greetings to the Soulful, It's taken me a minute to do it, but I finally have a MySpace page. To all of you that have been supporting my music for all these years, thank you. Stay tuned and enjoy the ...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:30:00 GMT