Jay Anderson


Jay Anderson is an American jazz double-bassist and studio musician.

Career

Anderson received a bachelor's degree from California State University, Long Beach in 1978, then worked with Woody Herman, Carmen McRae, and a quartet led by Ira Sullivan and Red Rodney. Anderson remained with Rodney through 1992, also working with Michael Brecker during this time, and played with Toots Thielemans and Joe Sample for much of the 1990s. As a sideman, he played with Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Eliane Elias, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Bennie Wallace, Brian Lynch, Bob Belden, Warren Bernhardt, Joey Calderazzo, Dave Stryker, Mike Stern, Chaka Khan, Terumasa Hino, Michel Legrand, Tiger Okoshi, Lynne Arriale, Bob Mintzer, George Cables, Paul Bley, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Rich Perry, Vic Juris, and Lee Konitz. He is a professor at Manhattan School of Music.

Discography

As leader

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  • ''Deepscape''

As sideman

With Lynne ArrialeThe Eyes Have It Live at Montreux Inspiration Arise Come Together Live
With Bob BeldenStraight to My Heart Puccini's Turandot Princejazz La Cigale
With Warren BernhardtHeat of the Moment Ain't Life Grand Reflections So Real Amelia's Song
With Paul BleyIf We May Speechless Reality Check Notes On Ornette
With George CablesI Mean You Skylark Dark Side, Light Side
With Stanley CowellAre You Real? Reminiscent No Illusions
With Harold DankoUnriched Lost in the Breeze Triple Play
With Michael DavisMidnight Crossing Brass Nation Trumpets Eleven
With Michael FranksWatching the Snow Time Together The Music in My Head
With Vic JurisFor the Music Pastels Moonscape Remembering Eric Dolphy Songbook Blue Horizon A Second Look Omega Is the Alpha Free Admission Walking On Water Blue Vic Juris Plays Victor Young Eye Contact Let's Cool One
With Frank KimbroughLive at Kitano Quartet Solstice
With Lee KonitzDearly Beloved Out of Nowhere RichLee!
With Andy LaVerneBetween Earth & Mars Know More Pianissimo
With Bob MintzerOnly in New York Big Band Trane Latin from Manhattan Quality Time Gently In the Moment Old School New Lessons Swing Out
With Rich PerryBeautiful Love What Is This? Left Alone At the Kitano 2 Gone Time Was Mood Other Matters
With Red RodneySpirit Within Sprint One for Bird No Turn On Red Red Snapper Then and Now
With Joe SampleOld Places Old Faces Sample This The Song Lives On The Pecan Tree
With Maria SchneiderEvanescence Concert in the Garden Sky Blue The Thompson Fields Data Lords
With Louis SmithThere Goes My Heart Soon The Bopsmith
With Mark Soskin17 Man Behind the Curtain Hearts and Minds Upper West Side Stories Everything Old Is New Again
With Dave StrykerPassage Full Moon Blue to the Bone Blue to the Bone III Latest Outlook The Scene Keeper
With Frank ZappaThing-Fish Cheap Thrills The Man from Utopia
With others