Wessell Anderson [Warmdaddy In The Garden Of Swing]I remember when i first got into this record, it was early in my love of Jazz, when things were first blossoming, i took it to this camping event, and as i snuck down to sleep that night in my car, i played this over and over again, the first track made a real impression on me, those were great times when i was wowed by the newness of Jazz, and excited by this new genre in my life, this was another disc i played early in my Blog [12th February 2010], this disc still moves me, it's still a great record, one of the very best Jazz discs i own.
Wessell Anderson is an American Saxophonist, specialising in the Alto Sax, but also plays the Sopranini Sax on this disc, he released this disc in 1994, i bought the follow up disc made a year later, the 'Ways Of Warmdaddy', but i wasn't impressed, his next record is a live date at the Village Vanguard in 1998, and that's where the discs have dried up, i don't know the reason for this, he grew up as a prodigy from the Marsalis Brothers, and did a stint in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, i actually bought this disc on the strength of the cover [photo by Katrin Thomas], but now that seems a strange reason, i guess it's not all that inspiring, the guy in the foreground is his son [now a Jazz Trombonist i believe], now Wessell Anderson is more of a Sidesman.
