Anschell, Bill / Shifting Standards
Album: Shifting Standards   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Anschell, Bill   Added:Sep 2018
Label:Origin  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2018-09-23 Pull Date: 2018-11-25 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Oct 14 Sep 30
Airplays: 3 1

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 30, 2021: Clean Copper Radio (rebroadcast from Oct 10, 2018)
Some Other Time
4. Dec 01, 2018: ad hoc variety show
Jitterbug Waltz
2. May 10, 2019: Traditions
Cheek To Cheek
5. Dec 01, 2018: Music Casserole
You And The Night And The Music
3. Dec 01, 2018: Audio Ambrosia
Con Alma
6. Nov 29, 2018: No Cover, No Minimum
Cheek To Cheek

Album Review
Tom McCarter
Reviewed 2018-09-17
Reviewed: 2018-09-16
Genre: Jazz
FCCs: none
Review: Pianist/composer Anschell's recordings are filled with his unique and vibrant original compositions or surprising, liberated arrangements of jazz & pop classics. For Shifting Standards, Anschell depends on the uncanny shared intuition that's been developed over ten years with his trio-mates, bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer D'Vonne Lewis. Well-loved standards from jazz and Great American Songbook composers unfold, capturing the trio's live chemistry and spontaneity.
If You Like: Bud Powell, Jaki Byard, Wynton Kelly
Track Review (favorites denoted by *):
**1/ A Night In Tunisia (8:02) – piano starts slow and hesitating> slow hesitating jam> everybody solos> quick stop
2/ Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (6:54) – piano starts> slow jam> piano solo> bass solo> slow jam> slow fade
*3/ Cheek To Cheek (4:51) – piano starts, swings into uptempo jam> drum solo> uptempo jam> quick stop
*4/ You And The Night And The Music (7:06) – piano starts> slow hesitating jam> piano solo> bass solo> slow jam swings to midtempo briefly & back> slow fade
5/ Some Other Time (6:23) – piano starts> slow jam> piano solo> bass solo> slow jam>
**6/ Con Alma (8:31) – piano starts> uptempo jam> piano solo> bass solo> uptempo jam with drum flurries intermittently> uptempo jam> crescendo end
7/ Soul Eyes (6:23) – piano starts> slow jam> piano solo> bass solo> slow jam> slow fade
**8/ Jitterbug Waltz (6:47) – piano starts> midtempo jam> piano solo> > uptempo jam with drum flurries intermittently> midtempo jam> slows to fade
9/ All Of You (8:18) – piano starts> slow jam> piano solo builds to midtempo> bass solo> midtempo jam with drum flurries intermittently> midtempo jam slows to fade

Track Listing
1. A Night In Tunisia   6. Con Alma
2. Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered   7. Soul Eyes
3. Cheek To Cheek   8. Jitterbug Waltz
4. You And The Night And The Music   9. All Of You
5. Some Other Time   .