ANDERSON BROTHERS: THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Peter and Will Anderson bring The American Songbook to Birdland with their all-star quintet. The identical-twin, Juilliard-trained reed players will interpret songs by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers and Harold Arlen, drawing on the defining writers of the American standard repertory. The listing does not name the quintet’s other musicians, but frames the program around the brothers’ clarinet and saxophone work.

Washington, DC natives Peter and Will Anderson are Grammy-winning musicians praised by The New York Times as “virtuosos on clarinet & saxophone.” Known for arranging and performing classic jazz and Songbook material alongside original music, they have appeared at the Blue Note, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and the New Orleans Jazz Festival. Their credits include the Grammy-winning Boardwalk Empire soundtrack with Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, as well as work heard or seen in Revolutionary Road, Killers of the Flower Moon and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. They have also performed with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Barron, Paquito D’Rivera and Jimmy Heath’s Big Band. The Washington Post called their music “imaginatively unfolding in ways that consistently bring a fresh perspective to classic jazz.”