ANDERSON BROTHERS: THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Peter and Will Anderson bring The American Songbook to Birdland with their all-star quintet. The identical twin reed players will interpret Great American Songbook material drawn from George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and Harold Arlen, giving the evening a focused tour through writers whose songs have remained central to jazz repertoire. The listing does not name the other quintet members, but frames the set around the brothers' arrangements and their shared command of clarinet and saxophone.

Washington, DC natives and Juilliard graduates, Peter and Will Anderson are Grammy-winning musicians whom The New York Times called “virtuosos on clarinet & saxophone.” They are known for fresh readings of classic jazz songs alongside original music, and have headlined at the Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the New Orleans Jazz Festival and Feinstein’s 54 Below. Their work includes performances with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Village Vanguard Orchestra and Jimmy Heath’s Big Band, plus the Grammy-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. They have also appeared in Revolutionary Road, Killers of the Flower Moon, Boardwalk Empire and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. The Washington Post described their playing as “imaginatively unfolding in ways that consistently bring a fresh perspective to classic jazz.”