Anders Griffen
musician
Anders Griffen
musician
New in print ...
Encore: Donald Dean
...for The New York City Jazz Record, January 2025
(^this link is to the entire paper, so it takes a bit longer to load)
Read his story here:
"The Dean's Amazing Groove"
(^this link is the cover and article only)
New writings all the time:
MACK :
Matt Lavelle - clarinets and trumpet
Anders Griffen - drum set
Chad Fowler - saxophones and flute
Ken Filiano - bass
July 24 - The Loading Dock, Littleton, NH
July 26 - Easthampton Media, Easthampton, MA
presented by Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares
A new ensemble assembled by Anders Griffen, all of these individuals have created music together except for AG and Matt Lavelle. After decades of orbital overlap in the same regions of space, the bond is forming.
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This is an entirely new group, but here is some representative music:
Sparks Quartet Live at Vision xxvi
Recent releases ...
click on the image to go to the bandcamp page
Chad Fowler - stritch, bass flute
Shanyse Strickland - French horn, flute, vocals
Sana Nagano - violin
Melanie Dyer - viola
Ken Filiano - bass
Anders Griffen - drums
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jim Clouse, Park West Studios,
Brooklyn, NY,
April 26, 2022
Released January 2024
Researchers of birdsong in urban environments have found that anthropogenic ambient noise has increased in urban areas over time and that there is a coinciding cultural evolution of dialects for cultural transmission. Dialects change: they grow and evolve, sometimes they may disappear. As the environment changes, so do its inhabitants. They adapt in order to reach one another with their sound.
There is a parallel in music, both as expression evolves over time and musicians relate in unique ways based on their backgrounds and origins. Improvised music provides a setting where this may be explored to the fullest. This diverse ensemble is made up of musicians with unique origins and backgrounds and a few of them were meeting for the first time.
more recent releases
Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022
thinking unthinking
thinking unthinking
thinking unthinking
broken unbroken
thinking unthinking
thinking unthinking
Diane Cluck with Anders Griffen
Released February 5, 2021
by Diane Cluck
One of my favorite collaborations. You really kind of had to be there, but it's nice we have at least something to show for it.
Nothing But Love: The Music of Frank Lowe
Released September 4, 2020
A group of dispersed musicians who were close to Frank Lowe over the last decade of his life met up in Brooklyn on June 15th & 16th, 2019, to play and record some of his music.