Upcoming Events
I was very excited about our event for this week since it involved a duo piano featuring Josh Nelson and one of my very, very favorite pianists: Mike Wofford. It turns out Mike is not feeling well and is not able to make it. We will instead be featuring Josh Nelson with guitarist Anthony Wilson.
If you purchased tickets to the piano duo, your ticket is still valid for this new concert. If you would no longer like to attend in light of this change, we cannot offer a refund. However, please hold on to your ticket and you may use it to attend a future Jazz Bakery concert of your choosing. Hopefully Mike Wofford will be part of one of these performances soon.
- Ruth Price
Los Angeles born guitarist and composer Anthony Wilson is one of the leading jazz musicians of his generation, known for a wide-ranging body of musical work that moves effortlessly across genre boundaries.
With fourteen albums to his credit, Wilson’s first recording, for a nine-piece band, received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Recording, and was followed by the critically acclaimed “Goat Hill Junket” and “Adult Themes.” His album Power of Nine was included in the New Yorker’s roundup of that year’s top-ten jazz albums. The recent albums “Collodion,” a mostly improvised and electronic recording, and “Hackensack West,” a quartet date featuring Wilson alongside longtime colleagues John Clayton, Gerald Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton, have demonstrated the breadth of Wilson’s artistic vision.
The guitarist of choice for singer/pianist Diana Krall for nearly two decades, Wilson has also performed live, arranged for, and recorded with a diverse roster of artists that includes Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, Melody Gardot, Barbra Streisand, Leon Russell and Aaron Neville, as well as with jazz legends Ron Carter, Charles Lloyd, Bobby Hutcherson, Harold Land, Bennie Wallace, and Wilson’s father, the renowned trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Gerald Wilson.
Pianist, composer and recording artist Josh Nelson maintains an active and creative schedule. He has performed and recorded with some of the most respected names in jazz and beyond, including Natalie Cole, Ivan Lins, Anthony Wilson, George Mraz, Jeff Hamilton, Walter Smith III, Dayna Stephens, Eddie Daniels, Gaby Moreno, Sinne Eeg, Richard Galliano, Michael Buble, Benny Golson, Sheila Jordan, Greg Hutchinson, John Clayton, John Pizzarelli, and Lewis Nash.
Josh has performed around the world and contributed to numerous recordings, films and television shows. He made an impressive debut with his first two albums, Anticipation (2004) and Let it Go (2007, Native Language Music), both of which garnered international critical acclaim. Josh’s third album, I Hear a Rhapsody (2009), featured his original compositions, interpretations of standards, and the re-imagining of some popular repertoire. Discoveries (2011), introduced a pairing of classic science fiction film footage with new compositions for a brass and wind ensemble.