After a decade of recording mostly unscripted, improvised albums focused
on his deep musical relationships with a few key players, pianist Bill
Anschell returns to recording his own compositions and arrangements on
'Rumbler,' his fifteenth as a leader or co-leader. Anschell penned eight
of the eleven tracks as well as arrangements of Thelonious Monk's
'Misterioso' and Paul McCartney's 'For No One. ' Mostly written on the
road in planes and hotel rooms, 'Rumbler' doubles as a musical
travelogue, especially vivid in its reflection of experiences from his
touring in South America over the last several years. Anschell is joined
by a stellar cast of Seattle musicians, plus a guest appearance by
Nashville saxophonist Jeff Coffin on the title track. The album closes
with a moving, fully improvised solo expression of Duke Ellington's
under-recorded 'Reflections in D.'
