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Anders Griffen

Anders GriffenAnders GriffenAnders Griffen

musician 

Anders Griffen

Anders GriffenAnders GriffenAnders Griffen

musician 

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News

Performing with Sana Nagano and Ken Filiano March 7th ...

Performing with Sana Nagano and Ken Filiano March 7th ...

Performing with Sana Nagano and Ken Filiano March 7th ...

Performing with Sana Nagano and Ken Filiano March 7th ...

Performing with Sana Nagano and Ken Filiano March 7th ...

Tuesday evening at 8:30pm 


Downtown Music Gallery 

 13 Monroe Street  
New York, NY 10002-7351  
(212) 473-0043



It's very exciting to listen and create with these phenomenal musicians. Sana and Ken work together in Smashing Humans, the three of us have worked together in an exciting sextet that will see an album release later this year with Mahakala Music, and Sana and I have done at least three different projects for that label. 



Sana Nagano 

Ken Filiano 


Part II: https://youtu.be/ZLp_fXqk3qw 

Part III: https://youtu.be/6kqPc5eiXVU 

New website!

                https://musicevolution.info/ 


Featuring original musician-to-musician interviews
with Bertha Hope, William Parker, Marilyn Mazur, Henry Franklin, 

Freda Payne, Herb Bushler, and Kim Clarke 

and many more coming soon! 




recently released

Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022 !

Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022 !

Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022 !

Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022 !

Trio recordings with Chad Fowler and William Parker ....... released August 26, 2022 !

Mahakala Music 











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From the Archives:  "Wheel" with Bernard Santacruz and Frank Lowe - April 30, 1998 

This was a blast! ...nothing like live music

live music

Tickets here:
https://dice.fm/partner/dice/event/vr797-adam-green-toby-goodshank-23rd-apr-the-sultan-room-new-york-tickets

We're performing Toby's album Truth Jump Fall
tobygoodshank.bandcamp.com
https://tobygoodshank.bandcamp.com 


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New Writings published all the time!
andersgriffen.com/writings 


 


other recent releases!


Released February 5, 2021

 by Diane Cluck 


One of my favorite collaborations ...  


dianecluck.bandcamp.com/album/west-coast-tour-2008


Released September 4, 2020 

 by Mahakala Music 


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 ... 


https://musicoffranklowe.bandcamp.com/ 

album reviews :

Nothing But Love: The Music of Frank Lowe - review: The New York City Jazz Record - Feb 2021 (pdf)Download

jazzaparis.canalblog.com/archives/2021/02/01/38786210.html


notesvagabondes.hautetfort.com/archive/2020/11/20/nothing-but-love-the-music-of-frank-lowe-



About

Anders Griffen is a musician and composer playing drums, and sometimes trumpet, bending genres with original songwriters, instrumentalists, choreographers and other creative artists.

On 40+ records, and concerts across the States and abroad -- including Lollapalooza, Primavera Sound, and The End of the Road festivals, a Peel Session on BBC Radio 1, and on Jazz with OT with legendary  radio presenter Oscar Treadwell -- Anders has performed with songwriters and bands like Jeffrey Lewis, Diane Cluck, Regina Spektor, Kimya Dawson, The Bundles, Paleface, The Walkmen, Mark Mulcahy, Winterpills, Zoë Darrow, Seth Faergolzia, Dufus, and the legendary Ish Marquez ...  
As well as  jazz musicians Frank Lowe, Bernard Santacruz, Christopher Parker, Chad Fowler, William Parker, Henry P. Warner, Roy Campbell Jr., Joe Shepley, and just a diverse range of artists, musicians and dancers.


A native of Brooklyn, New York, Anders now resides in western Massachusetts 

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