Earl Anderza
Peter Earl Anderza (born October 24, 1933 in Los Angeles , † 1982 ) was an American alto saxophonist of West Coast Jazz .
Anderza had lessons in saxophone and clarinet from the age of twelve. He recorded only two albums under his own name, Outa Sight for Pacific Jazz Records in 1962, with pianist Jack Wilson and drummer Donald Dean . The bass player for the session was either Jimmy Bond or George Morrow . Another album followed in 1963, which Anderza recorded with Hadley Caliman (tenor saxophone), Dupree Bolton (trumpet), Roosevelt Wardell (piano), Clarence Jones (bass) and Chuck Carter (drums).
Anderza's brief career was the subject of a chapter in the book on the San Quentin Jazz Band , in which Pierre Briançon describes the gathering of important jazz musicians in the California prison in the early 1960s. Anderza was incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison from May 1959 to October 1962 and again from June to September 1964. There he met Dupree Bolton and played a. a. also with Art Pepper , Jimmy Bunn and Frank Washington.
Appreciation
Contemporary critics have compared Aderza to Eric Dolphy and Ornette Coleman . Horace Tapscott described the musician as follows:
- “ Earl Anderza was bad. He was one of the cats, when Frank Morgan and Ornette Coleman were in Los Angeles playing alto sax. But Earl was the outest, the one vereryone said played that 'crazy sound'. "
Web links
- Earl Anderza at Allmusic (English)
- Earl Anderza at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ State of California. California Birth Index, 1905-1995 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2005.
- ^ Billboard April 27, 1963
- ↑ Steven Louis Isoardi: The Dark Tree: Jazz And the Community Arts in Los Angeles , p. 31
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Anderza, Earl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Anderza, Peter Earl (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American alto saxophonist of West Coast Jazz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1982 |