LOS ANGELES: the nominees for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance category at the Grammy Awards in 1998 included a nonet album from a talented young guitarist and arranger, catapulted into the limelight by the honor. By the time he recorded his fourth nonet album in 2006, The Power of Nine, Anthony Wilson was well-known as the guitarist for Diana Krall and lauded as one of the most outstanding jazz musicians on the West Coast.
After nearly two decades, Wilson returns to what first ushered him into the public eye, releasing a brand-new nonet album, House of the Singing Blossoms, performed live and recorded for a boisterous audience at Sam First in Los Angeles.
Let’s discover the power of the jazz nonet!